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||1897: Charles Stuart Ballantine born ... mathematical physicist and inventor. He discovered the "antenna effect" in coil-type systems and invented the capacity compensator for its control. In 1923 he was awarded the John Tyndall Fellowship in physics at Harvard University. At this time he developed the principle of negative feedback to stabilize and reduce distortion in transmission circuits, modulators, amplifiers, and detectors. Mr. Ballantine engaged in extensive studies of detection at high signal levels, fluctuation noise in radio receivers and tubes, development of technique for sound measurements of loudspeakers and receivers, microphone calibration, and broadcast receiver design. He invented a method of stabilizing radio-frequency amplifiers by means of a Wheatstone-bridge circuit, and in 1929 made important contributions to the design and use of vacuum tubes for radio receiving sets, later improving condenser microphones in such a way as to permit increased fidelity in the transmission of sound programs. One of the most widely known of his many contributions to radio was his invention of the first "throat microphone" to pick up voice sounds directly from the larynx, a device of major importance to aviators, later widely used by the Army Air Force. Pic: https://ethw.org/Charles_Stuart_Ballantine | ||1897: Charles Stuart Ballantine born ... mathematical physicist and inventor. He discovered the "antenna effect" in coil-type systems and invented the capacity compensator for its control. In 1923 he was awarded the John Tyndall Fellowship in physics at Harvard University. At this time he developed the principle of negative feedback to stabilize and reduce distortion in transmission circuits, modulators, amplifiers, and detectors. Mr. Ballantine engaged in extensive studies of detection at high signal levels, fluctuation noise in radio receivers and tubes, development of technique for sound measurements of loudspeakers and receivers, microphone calibration, and broadcast receiver design. He invented a method of stabilizing radio-frequency amplifiers by means of a Wheatstone-bridge circuit, and in 1929 made important contributions to the design and use of vacuum tubes for radio receiving sets, later improving condenser microphones in such a way as to permit increased fidelity in the transmission of sound programs. One of the most widely known of his many contributions to radio was his invention of the first "throat microphone" to pick up voice sounds directly from the larynx, a device of major importance to aviators, later widely used by the Army Air Force. Pic: https://ethw.org/Charles_Stuart_Ballantine | ||
||1900: Paul Hugh Emmett born ... chemist and engineer. Manhattan Project. Pic search | ||1900: Paul Hugh Emmett born ... chemist and engineer. Manhattan Project. Pic search. | ||
||1901: Friedrich Karl Schmidt born ... mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Pic. | ||1901: Friedrich Karl Schmidt born ... mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory. Pic. | ||
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||1912: Herbert Mataré born ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic. | ||1912: Herbert Mataré born ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic. | ||
||1921: Theoretical chemist and academic Robert Parr born. Working with DuPont chemist Rudolph Pariser, Parr developed a method of computing approximate molecular orbitals for pi electron systems, published in 1953. Since an identical procedure was derived by John A. Pople the same year, it is generally referred to as the Pariser-Parr-Pople method or PPP method. The PPP method differed from existing structural chemistry thinking by advancing the concept of zero differential overlap approximation. Pic search | ||1918: Charles Duncan Michener born ... entomologist ... leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being ''The Bees of the World''. Michener's work on social evolution in the Halictidae in the 1960s helped set the stage for the sociobiology revolution of the 1970s, with E. O. Wilson relying to a great degree on Michener's concepts regarding the paths from solitary to highly social life. Pic. | ||
||1921: Theoretical chemist and academic Robert Parr born. Working with DuPont chemist Rudolph Pariser, Parr developed a method of computing approximate molecular orbitals for pi electron systems, published in 1953. Since an identical procedure was derived by John A. Pople the same year, it is generally referred to as the Pariser-Parr-Pople method or PPP method. The PPP method differed from existing structural chemistry thinking by advancing the concept of zero differential overlap approximation. Pic search. | |||
||1927: Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. | ||1927: Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. | ||
||1937: Nicolae Popescu born ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search | ||1937: Nicolae Popescu born ... mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Pic search. | ||
||1954: BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') taken offline. BARK was an early electromechanical computer, built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. Pic. | ||1954: BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') taken offline. BARK was an early electromechanical computer, built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. Pic. | ||
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||1975: Enrico Bompiani dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Pic. | ||1975: Enrico Bompiani dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Pic. | ||
||1979: Otto Robert Frisch dies ... physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||1979: Otto Robert Frisch dies ... physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||
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||1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. | ||1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. | ||
||1979: Charles Ehresmann dies ... mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory. | ||1979: Charles Ehresmann dies ... mathematician who worked in differential topology and category theory. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, and is known for his work on the differential geometry of smooth fiber bundles, notably the Ehresmann connection, the concept of jets of a smooth map, and his seminar on category theory. Pic. | ||
||1990: Operation Steel Box ends: a joint U.S.-West German operation which moved 100,000 U.S. chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston Atoll. Pic. | |||
||1991: The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. | ||1991: The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. | ||
||2000: Mathematician and academic Alexei Kostrikin born. He will specialize in algebra and algebraic geometry, making important contributions to the Burnside problem; he also wrote widely used textbooks. Pic search | ||2000: Mathematician and academic Alexei Kostrikin born. He will specialize in algebra and algebraic geometry, making important contributions to the Burnside problem; he also wrote widely used textbooks. Pic search. | ||
||2001: Leslie Howarth dies ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/55/107.full.pdf | ||2001: Leslie Howarth dies ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/55/107.full.pdf | ||
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | ||
File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2014: The [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaches Mars and is inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above the planet's surface. | File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2014: The [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaches Mars and is inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above the planet's surface. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates third anniversary the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaching [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates third anniversary the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] reaching [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1703: Mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani dies. In 1660, Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli conducted an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.
1970: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton dies. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2014: The MAVEN probe reaches Mars and is inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above the planet's surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates third anniversary the MAVEN probe reaching Mars.