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||1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Pic. | |||
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669. | |||
||1710: William Heberden born ... physician and scholar. "In 1766, he recommended to the College of Physicians the first design of the Medical Transactions, in which he proposed to collect together such observations as might have occurred to any of their body, and were likely to illustrate the history or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted, and three volumes (were) successively laid before the public." Pic. | |||
||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic. | |||
||1782: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau dies ... physician, naval engineer and botanist. Pic. | |||
||1814: Anders Jonas Ångström born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | |||
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | |||
||1822: Amateur mathematician Jean-Robert Argand dies. In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram and is known for the first rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Robert_Argand | |||
||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1826: René Laennec dies ... physician, invented the stethoscope. Pic. | |||
||1831: Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. Pic. | |||
||1844: Johann Friedrich Miescher born ... biochemist and biologist who studied cell metabolism and discovered nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher investigated a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white blood cells found in pus. The substance, first named nuclein because it seemed to come from cell nuclei, became known as nucleic acid after 1874, when Miescher separated it into a protein and an acid molecule. It is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pic. | |||
||1861: Herbert Hall Turner born ... astronomer and seismologist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Herbert+Hall+Turner | |||
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists. | |||
||1867: Arthur Eichengrün born ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic. | |||
||1872: Richard Willstätter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate. Pic. | |||
||1882: William Stanley Jevons dies ... economist and logician. Pic. | |||
||1884: Rufus M. Porter dies ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic. | |||
||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | |||
||1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Pic. | |||
||1910: Florence Nightingale dies ... social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic. | |||
||1912: Salvador Luria born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1914: Grace Bates born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Bates+mathematician | |||
||1915: John Ulric Nef born ... chemist and academic ... discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ulric+Nef | |||
||1917: Eduard Buchner dies ... chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1918: Frederick Sanger born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1923: Arthur Dodd Code born ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic. | |||
||1930: The 1930 Curuçá River event refers to the possible meteor fall on 13 August 1930 over the area of Curuçá River in Brazil. It is based on the account of a single investigator who interviewed witnesses to the purported event, who then wrote a letter to the Vatican Observatory. Pic: map. | |||
||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831 | |||
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | |||
||1959: Anders Wiman dies ... mathematician .... His main focus of his research was algebraic geometry and applications of group theory to geometry and function theory. He introduced Wiman's sextic curve. Pic. | |||
||1968: Øystein Ore dies ... mathematician ... known for his work in ring theory, Galois connections, graph theory, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon. | |||
||2004: Anna Macleod born ... biochemist and academic, an authority on brewing and distilling. She was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry. Pic. | |||
||2008: Henri Cartan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:04, 7 February 2022
1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.