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||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. | ||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. | ||
||1608: Gaspar Schott born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search | ||1608: Gaspar Schott born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search. | ||
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||
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||1882: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler born ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass). | ||1882: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler born ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass). | ||
||1907: Wilhelm Magnus born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. Pic search | ||1907: Wilhelm Magnus born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. Pic search. | ||
||1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. Pic. | ||1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. Pic. | ||
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||1934: Lou Andreas-Salomé dies ... psychoanalyst and author. Pic. | ||1934: Lou Andreas-Salomé dies ... psychoanalyst and author. Pic. | ||
||1937: Wang Xuan born ... computer scientist and academic, innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search | ||1937: Wang Xuan born ... computer scientist and academic, innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search. | ||
||1939: Gheorghe Țițeica dies ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic. | ||1939: Gheorghe Țițeica dies ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic. | ||
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||1980: Nachman Aronszajn dies ... mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis. The existence of Aronszajn trees was proven by Aronszajn; Aronszajn lines, also named after him, are the lexicographic orderings of Aronszajn trees. Pic: https://www.knigozal.com/store/gb/book/nachman-aronszajn/isbn/978-613-1-15567-3 | ||1980: Nachman Aronszajn dies ... mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis. The existence of Aronszajn trees was proven by Aronszajn; Aronszajn lines, also named after him, are the lexicographic orderings of Aronszajn trees. Pic: https://www.knigozal.com/store/gb/book/nachman-aronszajn/isbn/978-613-1-15567-3 | ||
||1983: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search | ||1983: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America. | File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America. | ||
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||1988: Ove Arup dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Arup ... Sydney Opera House. Pic. | ||1988: Ove Arup dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Arup ... Sydney Opera House. Pic. | ||
||1991: Pedro Arrupe SJ dies ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic search | ||1991: Pedro Arrupe SJ dies ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic search. | ||
||2003: Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes dies ... physicist, DNA. He will co-author the second of three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953 announcing the presumed molecular structure of DNA. Pic search: | ||2003: Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes dies ... physicist, DNA. He will co-author the second of three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953 announcing the presumed molecular structure of DNA. Pic search. | ||
||2010: Peter Calvocoressi dies ... lawyer, Liberal politician, historian, and publisher. He served as an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. Pic. | |||
File:Val Fitch.jpg|link=Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|2015: Physicist and academic [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Logsdon Fitch]] dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation). | File:Val Fitch.jpg|link=Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|2015: Physicist and academic [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Logsdon Fitch]] dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation). | ||
Revision as of 11:26, 22 April 2020
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1789: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and crime-fighter Joseph Priestley gives landmark sermon on the use of Gnomon algorithm functions in the detection and prevention of crimes against chemistry.
1843: Rudolf Clausius publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on thermodynamics.
1915: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter born. He will share the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
1958: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
1978: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe is eaten by water fleas.
1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
2015: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 3 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly generates cryptographic numina after experience a CP violation event of unknown origin.
