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||1785: Adam Sedgwick born ... geologist and scientist dies .. one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Pic. | ||1785: Adam Sedgwick born ... geologist and scientist dies .. one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Pic. | ||
||1799: Friedrich Wilhelm | ||1799: Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander born. Argelander will be known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. Pic. | ||
||1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born ... writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant. Pic. | ||1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born ... writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant. Pic. | ||
||1840: Étienne Bobillier dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1840: Étienne Bobillier dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1857: Paul Doumer born ... mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France. | ||1857: Paul Doumer born ... mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France. Pic. | ||
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. | File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. | ||
File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | ||
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||1903: Bill Holman born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1903: Bill Holman born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. | File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. | ||
||1909: Gabrielle Roy born ... engineer (?) and author ... There is a quotation by her on the back of the Canadian $20 bill that reads: "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?" | ||1909: Gabrielle Roy born ... engineer (?) and author ... There is a quotation by her on the back of the Canadian $20 bill that reads: "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?" Pic. | ||
|File:Tempest prognosticator.jpg|link=Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|1910: [[Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|Tempest prognosticator]] used to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Tempest prognosticator.jpg|link=Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|1910: [[Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|Tempest prognosticator]] used to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:57, 21 March 2020
1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter steals Thomson tide calculator for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel attends birthday party for Nathan Rosen. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
1948: Computer programmer and crime-fighter Jean Bartik uses the ENIAC computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
2001: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2002: Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.