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||988: Dunstan dies ... was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. Patron saint of: blacksmiths; Charlottetown, Canada; goldsmiths; locksmiths; musicians; silversmiths; bellringers. No DOB. Pic. | |||
||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search maybe. | |||
File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design. | |||
||1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte born ... philosopher and academic. Pic. | |||
||1773: Arthur Aikin born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic. | |||
||1780: New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. | |||
||1857: Biochemist and pharmacologist John Jacob Abel born. Abel will contribute to the development of an early form of dialysis machine, and discover how to isolate and crystallize insulin. Pic. | |||
File:Ruth Ella Moore.jpg|link=Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|1903: Bacteriologist [[Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|Ruth Ella Moore]] born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans. | |||
||1907: Benjamin Baker dies ... engineer, designed the Forth Bridge. Pic. | |||
||1914: Max Perutz born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1915: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs born ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search. | |||
File:Abraham_Pais.jpg|link=Abraham Pais (nonfiction)|1918: Physicist, historian, and academic [[Abraham Pais (nonfiction)|Abraham Pais]] born. Pais will be an assistant to Niels Bohr, and a colleague of Albert Einstein, and later write books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. | |||
||1927: Serge Lang born ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic. | |||
||1928: Sergey Mergelyan born ... mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory. Pic: plaque. | |||
||1930: Rudolf Emil Kálmán born ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | |||
||1940: Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler dies ... number theorist. Pic. | |||
||1942: Gary Kildall born ... American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers, rather than equipment controllers, and to organize a company around this concept. Pic. | |||
||1942: Joseph Larmor dies ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic. | |||
||1949: György Elekes born ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem. He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. Pic: https://adamsheffer.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/incidences-lower-bounds-part-2/ | |||
||1950: A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | |||
File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). | |||
||1962: A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". | |||
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The Soviet Union launches the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 spacecraft]]. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute. | |||
||1979: Ralph Duncan James dies ... was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis. Pic: https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/cj.html | |||
||1996: Roy Mason dies - lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources. Mason invented architronics as exemplified in the Xanadu House. Pic. | |||
||2009: Robert F. Furchgott dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||2009: Herbert Frank York dies ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | |||
||2011: Tom West born ... engineer and author ... ''Soul of a New Machine''. Pic. | |||
||2014: The US Department of Justice announces that a Federal grand jury had returned an indictment of five officers of PLA Unit 61398 on charges of theft of confidential business information and intellectual property from U.S. commercial firms and of planting malware on their computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398 | |||
||2015: Dale Dehaven Myers dies ... aerospace engineer who was Deputy Administrator of NASA. Pic. | |||
||2015: Dale D. Myers dies ... engineer. Pic. | |||
File:Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov.jpg|link=Stanislav Petrov (nonfiction)|2017: Soviet Air Defense office [[Stanislav Petrov (nonfiction)|Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov]] dies. Petrov became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:36, 29 May 2024
1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1918: Physicist, historian, and academic Abraham Pais born. Pais will be an assistant to Niels Bohr, and a colleague of Albert Einstein, and later write books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
2017: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov dies. Petrov became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.