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||1827: Jacques-Louis Soret born ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. Pic. | ||1827: Jacques-Louis Soret born ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. Pic. | ||
||1869: Karl Theodor Vahlen born ... mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS. | ||1869: Karl Theodor Vahlen born ... mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS. Pic. | ||
||1880: Karl Rudolf Fueter born ... mathematician, known for his work on number theory. He will do research on algebraic number theory and quaternion analysis. He also published a proof of the Fueter–Pólya theorem with George Pólya. Pic. | ||1880: Karl Rudolf Fueter born ... mathematician, known for his work on number theory. He will do research on algebraic number theory and quaternion analysis. He also published a proof of the Fueter–Pólya theorem with George Pólya. Pic. | ||
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||1895: Karl Hermann Knoblauch dies ... physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. Pic. | ||1895: Karl Hermann Knoblauch dies ... physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in ''Annalen der Physik''. | ||
||1907: Mathematician Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev born. Faddeev and his wife Vera jointly wrote the influential book ''Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra''; they also developed an algorithm to find the resolvent matrix of a given matrix A. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dmitry+Konstantinovich+Faddeev | |||
File:Tunguska.png|link=Tunguska event (nonfiction)|1908: The [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|Tunguska event]] occurs in remote Siberia. | File:Tunguska.png|link=Tunguska event (nonfiction)|1908: The [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|Tunguska event]] occurs in remote Siberia. | ||
||1912: Ludwig Bölkow, German aero engineer | ||1912: Ludwig Bölkow, German aero engineer born ... Messer-262. Pic. | ||
||1914: Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey born ... mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes | ||1914: Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey born ... mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer. He invented the very first Soviet pulse jet engine and was responsible for the development of the world's first anti-ship cruise missiles and ICBM complexes. | ||
||1919: Ed Yost born ... American inventor of the modern hot air balloon. | ||1919: Ed Yost born ... American inventor of the modern hot air balloon. | ||
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File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1956: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1956: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | ||
||1960: Albert Châtelet dies ... French politician and mathematician. | ||1960: Albert Châtelet dies ... French politician and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1961: Lee de Forest dies ... inventor, invented the audion tube. | ||1961: Lee de Forest dies ... inventor, invented the audion tube. Pic. | ||
||1971: The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. | ||1971: The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. | ||
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||1971: Viktor Patsayev dies ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1971: Viktor Patsayev dies ... engineer and astronaut. | ||
||1971: Vladislav Volkov dies ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1971: Vladislav Volkov dies aboard Soyuz 11 ... engineer and astronaut. After a normal re-entry, the Soyuz 11 capsule was opened and the corpses of the three crew members were found inside. It was discovered that a valve had opened just prior to leaving orbit that had allowed the capsule's atmosphere to vent away into space, causing Volkov and his two flight companions to suffer fatal hypoxia as their cabin descended toward the earth's atmosphere. Pic. | ||
||1972: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik dies ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic. | ||1972: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik dies ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic. | ||
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||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1975: Miron Nicolescu dies ... mathematician. | ||1975: Miron Nicolescu dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1984: Henri Fabre dies ... pilot and engineer ... the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. Pic. | |||
||1995: Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy cosmonaut dies ... will command space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights. Pic (postage stamp). | |||
||2002: Claude Jacques Berge dies ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge | ||2002: Claude Jacques Berge dies ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge | ||
||2015: Robert Dewar dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1910: Chico Xavier dies ... spiritual medium. Pic. | ||
||2015: Robert Dewar dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:09, 6 February 2022
1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1905: Albert Einstein sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.