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||1561: Christoph Grienberger born ... Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1566: Nostradamus dies ... astrologer and author. Pic. | |||
File:Trigonometriae_-_Bartholomaeus_Pitiscus.jpg|link=Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (nonfiction)|1613: Mathematician, astronomer, and theologian [[Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (nonfiction)|Bartholomaeus Pitiscus]] dies. Pitiscus coined the word "trigonometry". | |||
||1621: Thomas Harriot dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer. Pic. | |||
||1622: René-François Walter de Sluse born ... mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him. | File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him. | ||
||1767: Christoph Andreas Mangold dies ... professor of anatomy at the University of Jena, who also studied chemistry. Mangold is known for his studies of gunpowder and cinnabar as well as the idea that medical diagnosis should be based upon symptoms, laboratory tests, and comparisons with other patients. No DOB. No pics online. | |||
File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1778: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe. | File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1778: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe. | ||
|| | ||1798: John Fitch dies ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic. | ||
||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin | ||1822: Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. | ||
||1823: Bailie Hugh Blackburn born ... mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | |||
||1841: Aleksander Zaytsev born ... chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction. Pic. | |||
||1842: Albert Ladenburg born ... chemist. He isolated hyoscine (later also known as scopolamine) in 1880. Pic. | |||
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1850: Stokes' theorem appeared for the first time as a postscript to a letter from Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to Stokes. By the time Stokes died, the theorem was universally known as "Stokes' theorem." | |||
||1852: William Burnside born ... mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. Pic. | |||
||1862: William Henry Bragg born ... physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". Pic. | |||
||1876: Harriet Brooks born ... Canadian physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1892: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin born ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines. Pic. | |||
||1893: Francis Simon born ... physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. Pic. | |||
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1897: British-Italian engineer [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] obtains a patent for radio in London. | |||
||1900: The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. | |||
||1902: Takahiko Yamanouchi born ... theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan. Pic: https://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/overview/former_deans/ | |||
||1914: Mário Schenberg born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1919: Anna Howard Shaw dies ... physician, minister, and suffrage activist. Pic. | |||
||1919: Karl Theodor Reye dies ... mathematician. He contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry, introducing the concept of configurations. The Reye configuration of 12 points, 12 planes, and 16 lines is named after him. Pic. | |||
||1925: Olga Arsenievna Oleinik born ... mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. Pic. | |||
||1926: Émile Coué dies ... psychologist and pharmacist. He introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. Pic. | |||
||1929: Carl Johnson born ... public health physician who opposed nuclear testing. Pic. | |||
||1934: The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. | |||
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | ||
||Hans Albrecht Bethe | ||1906: Hans Albrecht Bethe born ... nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. Pic. | ||
||1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov dies ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic. | |||
||1966: The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. | |||
||1967: Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for investigation. As additional Vela satellites were launched with better instruments, the Los Alamos team continued to find inexplicable gamma-ray bursts in their data. By analyzing the different arrival times of the bursts as detected by different satellites, the team was able to determine rough estimates for the sky positions of sixteen bursts and definitively rule out a terrestrial or solar origin. The discovery was declassified and published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal article entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin". This alerted the astronomical community to the existence of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), now recognised as the most violent events in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite) | |||
||1988: Vibert Douglas dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search. | |||
||2002: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. Pic. | |||
||2013: Douglas Engelbart dies ... computer scientist, invented the computer mouse. Pic. | |||
||2013: Anthony Llewellyn dies ... chemist, academic, and astronaut. Pic. | |||
||2014: Manuel Cardona dies ... physicist and academic. He specialized in solid state physics. Pic: https://history.aip.org/phn/11502015.html | |||
||2014: Harold W. Kuhn dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||2016: Rudolf Emil Kálmán dies ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | |||
|link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|2017: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] dies ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search. | |||
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1613: Mathematician, astronomer, and theologian Bartholomaeus Pitiscus dies. Pitiscus coined the word "trigonometry".
1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.