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||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps.
||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. ???


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.


||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search.


||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic.
 
||1803: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born.  He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic.


||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.


||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. Pic.


||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
||1859: Arthur Conan Doyle born ... writer. Pic.


||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.
||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.


||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801). Pic.
||1868: Julius Plücker dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
 
File:Georg Scheutz.jpg|link=Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor [[Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|Per Georg Scheutz]] born.  He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
 
||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
||1895: Isaac Peral dies ... engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888, but it was not accepted by the naval authorities. He then left the navy to develop other inventions commercially. Pic.


||Bronisław Knaster (b. 22 May 1893) was a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.
||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic.


||Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (b. 22 May 1903) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory.
||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic.


||1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search.


||1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search.


||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".


||Anatol Rapoport (b. May 22, 1911) was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.
||1911: Anatol Rapoport born ... mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.


||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1912: Herbert C. Brown born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work with organobromanes. Pic.


||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html
||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html


||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1


||1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic.
 
||1929: Mathematician André Haefliger born - he worked primarily on topology.


File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.  
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.  


||Chen Jingrun (b. May 22, 1933) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||1933: Chen Jingrun born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic.


||1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014) LCD
||1936: George H. Heilmeier born ... engineer ... LCD. Pic.


||1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)
||1942: Ted Kaczynski born ... academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber). Pic.


||1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
||1943: Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. Pic.


File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.


||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (d. 22 May 1956) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  
||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover.


||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic.


||1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
||1968: The nuclear-powered submarine the USS ''Scorpion'' sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.


||1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.


||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic.


||Derrick Henry Lehmer (d. May 22, 1991) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.
||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.


||1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1997: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
 
||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Self portrait (22 May 2024) 20240522_200220.jpg|link=Self portrait (22 May 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (22 May 2024)|Self portrait]]'''.
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  • 1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

    1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

  • 1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

    1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

  • 1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

    1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

  • 1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

    1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

  • 2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

    2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

  • 2024: Self portrait.

    2024: Self portrait.

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