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||1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (d. 1588)
||1533: Theodor Zwinger born ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic.


||1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
||1754: Pierre Charles L'Enfant born ... architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L%27Enfant


||Friedrich Stromeyer (b. 2 August 1776) was a German chemist.  
||1776: Friedrich Stromeyer bor  ... chemist. While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts. Pic.


||1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (d. 1853) Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was professor at the University of Heidelberg among other things, he worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test.
||1799: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier dies ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic.


||1823 – Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
||1788: Leopold Gmelin born ... chemist and academic. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic.
 
||1823: Lazare Carnot dies ...mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention. Pic.


File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1820: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] born.  He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1820: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] born.  He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
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File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1835: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1835: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]].


||Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (b. August 2, 1842) was a Russian academic and paleontologist. Pic.
||1842: Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky born ... academic and paleontologist. Pic.


||Ferdinand Rudio (b. 2 August 1856) was a German and Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1856: Ferdinand Rudio born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic.


||Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (b. 2 August 1861) was an Indian chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic.
||1861: Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray born ... chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic.


||Willis Rodney Whitney (b. August 22, 1868) was an American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic.
||1868: Willis Rodney Whitney born ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic.


||1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
||1870: Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.


||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.
||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.


File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] publishes theory of elliptic functions with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.


File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
||1902: Egon Orowan ... physicist and metallurgist. Pic.
 
||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic.


||Egon Orowan FRS (Hungarian: Orován Egon) (b. August 2, 1902) was a Hungarian/British/U.S. physicist and metallurgist.
||1917: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic.


||Mina Spiegel Rees (b. August 2, 1902) was an American mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic.
||1918: George William Whitehead, Jr. born ... professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his work on algebraic topology. He invented the J-homomorphism, and was among the first to systematically calculate the homotopy groups of spheres. Pic: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whitehead-george.pdf


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]].
||1921: Ruth Barcan Marcus born ... philosopher and logician ... a pioneer regarding the quantification of modal logic as well as the theory of direct reference ... developed the schemata known as the Barcan formula. Pic.


File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1922:  Engineer, inventor, and academic [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1922:  Engineer, inventor, and academic [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.


||Paul Roesel Garabedian (b. August 2, 1927) was a mathematician and numerical analyst. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for Potential theory and conformal mappings to the design and optimization of stellarators. Pic.
||1927: Paul Roesel Garabedian born ... mathematician and numerical analyst. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for Potential theory and conformal mappings to the design and optimization of stellarators. Pic.
 
|link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]].


||1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
||1939: Harvey Spencer Lewis dies ... mystic and author. Pic.


||1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
|link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon.


File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1939: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard . . . leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.  
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1939: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|E. Fermi]] and [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|L. Szilard]] ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].  


||1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident: North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
||1964: Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident: North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.


||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1970 – Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)
||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online.


||1976 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method that became known as the Allison magneto-optic method. He claimed to have discovered two new elements (later discredited) using this method. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Allison+physicist


||Ahmed Hassan Zewail (d. August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|2017: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says philosopher and martial artist [[Red Eyes]].
||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.


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Latest revision as of 10:59, 7 February 2022

  • 1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.

    1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.

  • 1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

    1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

  • 1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

    1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

  • 1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.

    1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.

  • 1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.

    1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.

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