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||1770: Alexandre Brongniart born ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | ||1770: Alexandre Brongniart born ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | ||
||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic. | ||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic. | ||
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||1836: Alexander Stewart Herschel born ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic. | ||1836: Alexander Stewart Herschel born ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic. | ||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic. | ||
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||1958: Kilby Files a Patent for the Integrated Circuit. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files a patent application called miniaturized electronic circuits for his work on a multi-transistor device. The patent was only one of 60 that Kilby holds. While Kilby has the earliest patent on the integrated circuit, it was Robert Noyce, later co-founder of Intel, whose parallel work resulted in a practical device. Kilby's device had several transistors connected by flying wires while Noyce devised the idea of interconnection via a layer of metal conductors. Noyce also adapted Jean Hoerni's planar technique for making transistors to the manufacture of more complex circuits. *CHM Jack Kilby: Pic. | ||1958: Kilby Files a Patent for the Integrated Circuit. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files a patent application called miniaturized electronic circuits for his work on a multi-transistor device. The patent was only one of 60 that Kilby holds. While Kilby has the earliest patent on the integrated circuit, it was Robert Noyce, later co-founder of Intel, whose parallel work resulted in a practical device. Kilby's device had several transistors connected by flying wires while Noyce devised the idea of interconnection via a layer of metal conductors. Noyce also adapted Jean Hoerni's planar technique for making transistors to the manufacture of more complex circuits. *CHM Jack Kilby: Pic. | ||
||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Pic. | ||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Pic. | ||
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||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Tacky (TV series).jpg|link=Tacky|Premiere of '''''[[Tacky]]''''', an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan. | ||
||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 | ||
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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). | ||
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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.
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".
Premiere of Tacky, an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan.
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).
