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File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons neutralizes entire class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1969: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used for [[crimes against mathematical constants]], says [[Dalton Trumbo]].
 
File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|1970: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "perfume for sociopaths", discovered in previously unknown [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] isotopes.
File:Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi_at_observatory.jpg|link=Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|1201: Polymath [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]] born. Tusi will be a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he will establish trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.  
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2010: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] organizes benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], condemns [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]].
 
File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|2010: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] agrees to give keynote address at [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|ETNA]] benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alessandro Volta.jpg|link=Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|1745: Physicist and chemist [[Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|Alessandro Volta]] born. Volta will conduct pioneering experiments in electricity and electrochemistry, discovering the electrical battery; he will also discover methane.
 
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.
 
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1949: Singer-physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
 
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
 
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