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||1605: Thomas Browne born ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||1605: Thomas Browne born ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||
||1608: Martin Delrio dies ... occultist and theologian. Pic search. | |||
||1682: Thomas Browne dies ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||1682: Thomas Browne dies ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Pic. | ||
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||1815: Paolo Mascagni dies ... physician and anatomist. Pic. | ||1815: Paolo Mascagni dies ... physician and anatomist. Pic. | ||
||1853: Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich born ... Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), and was also a rocket pioneer. He was the paternal uncle of revolutionary Victor Serge. Pic. | |||
||1878: Irénée-Jules Bienaymé dies ... statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Pic. | ||1878: Irénée-Jules Bienaymé dies ... statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Pic. | ||
||1897: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui born ... chemist and scholar. | ||1897: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui born ... chemist and scholar. Siddiqui isolated unique chemical compounds from the Neem (Azadirachta indica), Rauwolfia, and various other Asian flora. Pic. | ||
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law). | File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law). | ||
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||1902: Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn dies ... geologist and public servant. Pic. | ||1902: Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn dies ... geologist and public servant. Pic. | ||
||1909: Marguerite Perey | File:Cesare_Lombroso.jpg|link=Cesare Lombroso (nonfiction)|1909: Criminologist and physician [[Cesare Lombroso (nonfiction)|Cesare Lombroso]] dies. Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic. | ||
File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] born. Perey will discover the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum. | |||
File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". | |||
||1911: Aviation pioneer Eugene Burton Ely dies in plane crash. He is credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. Pic. | |||
||1937: Ernest Rutherford dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1937: Ernest Rutherford dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1939: Roman Ulrich Sexl born ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. | ||1939: Roman Ulrich Sexl born ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. Pic search. | ||
||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||
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||1965: The London Times reported that an archaeologist had located what he believed to be the tomb of Archimedes. | ||1965: The London Times reported that an archaeologist had located what he believed to be the tomb of Archimedes. | ||
||1972: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin dies ... mathematician ... an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. Pic search. | |||
||1973: A US Federal Judge signed his decision following a lengthy court trial which declared the ENIAC patent invalid and belatedly credited physicist John Atanasoff with developing the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff- Berry Computer or the ABC. Built in 1937-42 at Iowa State University by Atanadoff and a graduate student, Clifford Berry, it introduced the ideas of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and logic circuits. These ideas were communicated from Atanasoff to John Mauchly, who used them in the design of the better-known ENIAC built and patented several years later. (Today in Science History) | ||1973: A US Federal Judge signed his decision following a lengthy court trial which declared the ENIAC patent invalid and belatedly credited physicist John Atanasoff with developing the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff- Berry Computer or the ABC. Built in 1937-42 at Iowa State University by Atanadoff and a graduate student, Clifford Berry, it introduced the ideas of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, and logic circuits. These ideas were communicated from Atanasoff to John Mauchly, who used them in the design of the better-known ENIAC built and patented several years later. (Today in Science History) | ||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | ||
||1985: Lincoln LaPaz dies ... astronomer and academic, meteor study pioneer. Pic search. | |||
||1987: The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. | ||1987: The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. | ||
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||1991: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin | ||1991: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin | ||
||1992: Magnus Pyke dies ... scientist and television host. | ||1992: Magnus Pyke dies ... scientist and television host. Pic. | ||
||1992: James J. Stoker dies ... applied mathematician and engineer. He was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is considered one of the founders of the institute, Courant and Friedrichs being the others. Stoker is known for his work in differential geometry and theory of water waves. He is also the author of the now classic book Water Waves: The Mathematical Theory with Applications. Pic search. | |||
||1994: The Pentium FDIV bug error was isolated to the Pentium Pro chip by Professor Thomas R. Nicely at Lynchburg College, Virginia, USA while working on Brun's constant (the sum of the reciprocals of the odd twin primes). Nicely had noticed some inconsistencies in the calculations on June 13, 1994 shortly after adding a Pentium system to his group of computers, but was unable to eliminate other factors (such as programming errors, motherboard chipsets, etc.) until October 19, 1994. On October 24, 1994 he reported the issue to Intel. The bug was rarely encountered by average users (Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating point divides with random parameters would produce inaccurate results) | ||1994: The Pentium FDIV bug error was isolated to the Pentium Pro chip by Professor Thomas R. Nicely at Lynchburg College, Virginia, USA while working on Brun's constant (the sum of the reciprocals of the odd twin primes). Nicely had noticed some inconsistencies in the calculations on June 13, 1994 shortly after adding a Pentium system to his group of computers, but was unable to eliminate other factors (such as programming errors, motherboard chipsets, etc.) until October 19, 1994. On October 24, 1994 he reported the issue to Intel. The bug was rarely encountered by average users (Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating point divides with random parameters would produce inaccurate results) | ||
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||2000: Karl Stein dies ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||2000: Karl Stein dies ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | ||
||2002: Nikolay Rukavishnikov dies ... physicist and astronaut. | ||2002: Nikolay Rukavishnikov dies ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||2002: Peter Gabriel Bergmann dies ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. Pic: https://medium.com/@phalpern/desperately-seeking-einsteins-assistant-e68818d28f48 | ||2002: Peter Gabriel Bergmann dies ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. Pic: https://medium.com/@phalpern/desperately-seeking-einsteins-assistant-e68818d28f48 | ||
||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||2004: Kenneth E. Iverson dies ... computer scientist, developed the APL programming language. Pic. | ||
||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | |||
||2013: Vladimir Keilis-Borok dies ... mathematical geophysicist and seismologist. Pic: http://dailybruin.com/2013/10/31/keilis-borok-remembered-for-earthquake-prediction-research/ | ||2013: Vladimir Keilis-Borok dies ... mathematical geophysicist and seismologist. Pic: http://dailybruin.com/2013/10/31/keilis-borok-remembered-for-earthquake-prediction-research/ | ||
||2013: Hilda Hänchen dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||2013: Hilda Hänchen dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
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1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1909: Criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso dies. Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic.
1909: Physicist and chemist Marguerite Perey born. Perey will discover the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum.
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.