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||1497 – The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
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||1736 – Stephen Gray, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1666)
||1497: The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.


||1804 – John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company (d. 1886)
||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire


||1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search.


||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic.
 
||1824: William Huggins born ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic.
 
||1833: Jacob Mendes Da Costa born ... physician. Pic.
 
||1859: Mathematician and astronomer James Inman dies ... Pic: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/%E2%80%9Codd-little-book%E2%80%9D-revealed-be-chinese-musical-gem
 
||1871: Kiyoshi Shiga born ... physician and bacteriologist ... famous for the discovery of Shigella dysenteriae, the organism that causes dysentery, in 1897, during a severe epidemic in which more than 90,000 cases were reported, with a mortality rate approaching 30%. Pic.


File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.


File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes.
||1883: Eric Temple Bell born ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic.


File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.


||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (b. 7 February 1897) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.
||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search.


||1897 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic.
 
||1893 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)


File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
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File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is brought to trial for libel for publishing ''J'accuse''.
File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is brought to trial for libel for publishing ''J'accuse''.


File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on [[Peano curve (nonfiction)|space-filling curves]].
||1901: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch dies ... mathematician ... working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.
 
||1905: Ulf von Euler born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... Neurotransmitters. Pic.
 
||1906: Oleg Antonov born ... engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company. Pic.
 
||1908: Milton Spinoza Plesset born ... applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic.
 
||1909: Kōsaku Yosida (b. Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Pic.
 
||1926: Konstantin Feoktistov born ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
 
||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic.
 
||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search.
 
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore dies - "Take her down" - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic.
 
||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic.


||1905 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) Neurotransmitters
File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies.  Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.  


||1906 – Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company (d. 1984)
||1969: Hans Adolph Rademacher dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.  Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher


File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.


||1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2009)
File:Replicant Vice - Let Me Tell You About Miami.jpg|link=Replicant Vice|Premiere of '''''[[Replicant Vice]]''''', an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.


||1926 – Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
||1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).


||1951 – Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic.


||1960 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search.


||Hans Adolph Rademacher (d. 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|1999: NASA launches the spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.


||1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
||2000: Doug Henning dies ... magician and politician. Pic.


||1990 – Alan Perlis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1922)
||2007: Alan MacDiarmid dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic.


||2000 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
||2013: The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.


||2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
||2018: Newton Ennis Morton dies ... population geneticist and one of the founders of the field of genetic epidemiology. He work with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan during 1952–1953 will inspire him to pursue a career in human genetics. Pic.


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Latest revision as of 08:52, 7 February 2022

  • 1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.

    1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.

  • 1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

    1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

  • 1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.

    1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.

  • 1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.

    1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.

  • Premiere of Replicant Vice, an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.

    Premiere of Replicant Vice, an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.

  • 1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.

    1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.

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