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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: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''. | 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''. | ||
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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. | ||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.