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File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community. | File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community. | ||
||1813: Antoine Étienne de Tousard dies ... general and engineer. No pics online. | |||
||1852: Jan Ernest Matzeliger born ... inventor who is best known for his shoe-lasting machine that revolutionished the shoe industry by replacing the hand work of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe. He left his homeland of Dutch Guiana and sailed for America at age 19. He settled in Lynn, Massachussetts, by about age 25, where he became a shoe stitching machine operator. There he saw the tedious and slow process of finishing the shoe by hand, and resolved to develop a machine able to do that job more efficiently. Despite being so poor that obtaining materials was difficult, he made a wooden model. He obtained a patent for his invention, issued on 20 Mar 1883. With improvements, by 1885, he had a production model ready, able to produce shoes far more rapidly than hand workers. He died of tuberculosis at the early age of not yet 37. Pic. | ||1852: Jan Ernest Matzeliger born ... inventor who is best known for his shoe-lasting machine that revolutionished the shoe industry by replacing the hand work of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe. He left his homeland of Dutch Guiana and sailed for America at age 19. He settled in Lynn, Massachussetts, by about age 25, where he became a shoe stitching machine operator. There he saw the tedious and slow process of finishing the shoe by hand, and resolved to develop a machine able to do that job more efficiently. Despite being so poor that obtaining materials was difficult, he made a wooden model. He obtained a patent for his invention, issued on 20 Mar 1883. With improvements, by 1885, he had a production model ready, able to produce shoes far more rapidly than hand workers. He died of tuberculosis at the early age of not yet 37. Pic. | ||
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||1854: Traugott Sandmeyer born ... chemist after whom the Sandmeyer reaction, which he discovered 1884, was named. Sandmeyer also invented a new synthesis for indigo. Pic. | ||1854: Traugott Sandmeyer born ... chemist after whom the Sandmeyer reaction, which he discovered 1884, was named. Sandmeyer also invented a new synthesis for indigo. Pic. | ||
||1857: Anna Winlock born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search | ||1857: Anna Winlock born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1859: Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies . | Isambard Kingdom Brunel|link=Isambard Kingdom Brunel (nonfiction)|1859: Mechanical and civil engineer [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel (nonfiction)|Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] dies. Brunel is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history". | ||
||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1883: Esteban Terradas i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. Pic search | ||1883: Esteban Terradas i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. Pic search. | ||
||1886: Paul Lévy born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1886: Paul Lévy born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
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||1929: Rutherford "Gus" Aris born ... a chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||1929: Rutherford "Gus" Aris born ... a chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1929: Murray Gell-Mann born ... physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Pic. | |||
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | ||
||1965: Samuel King Allison dies ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||1965: Samuel King Allison dies ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
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||1971: John Desmond Bernal dies ... scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society. Pic. | ||1971: John Desmond Bernal dies ... scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society. Pic. | ||
File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] dies. He contributed to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics. | File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] dies. He contributed to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics. | ||
||1927: Leon Mestel dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. In 1963, he published a paper describing a phenomenon that occurs during galaxy and star formation that came to be known as a 'Mestel disk'. Pic search | ||1927: Leon Mestel dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. In 1963, he published a paper describing a phenomenon that occurs during galaxy and star formation that came to be known as a 'Mestel disk'. Pic search. | ||
||2017: The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its nearly two-decade-long mission. Pic. | ||2017: The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its nearly two-decade-long mission. Pic. | ||
Latest revision as of 12:58, 7 February 2022
1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician Jean Sylvain Bailly born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1859: Mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies. Brunel is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history".
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger dies. He contributed to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.