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||1498: Antonio del Pollaiuolo dies ... painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. Pic (bust in niche). (Fiction: Scrying engine.) | ||1498: Antonio del Pollaiuolo dies ... painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance. Pic (bust in niche). (Fiction: Scrying engine.) | ||
File:Giambattista della Porta.jpg|link=Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|1615: Polymath [[Giambattista della Porta (nonfiction)|Giambattista della Porta]] dies. Della Porta's most famous work, ''Magiae Naturalis'' (1558), covers a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy. | |||
||1682: Johann Friedrich Böttger born ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic. | |||
||1749: Thomas Earnshaw born ... watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He is also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of a chronometer escapement and a form of bimetallic compensation balance. Pic. | ||1749: Thomas Earnshaw born ... watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He is also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of a chronometer escapement and a form of bimetallic compensation balance. Pic. | ||
||1774: Charles Marie de La Condamine dies . | File:Charles_Marie_de_La_Condamine.jpg|link=Charles Marie de La Condamine (nonfiction)|1774: Mathematician and geographer [[Charles Marie de La Condamine (nonfiction)|Charles Marie de La Condamine]] dies. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations. | ||
||1778: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle born ... botanist, mycologist, and academic. | ||1778: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle born ... botanist, mycologist, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1818: Joshua Abraham Norton, known as Emperor Norton, born ... Norton was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. In 1863 he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico" after Napoleon III invaded the country. Pic. | |||
||1846: William Hood born ... civil engineer who invented California’s Tehachapi Loop, an elegant 0.73-mile railroad spiral. Called one of the seven wonders of the railroad world, it is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It is part of 28 miles of railroad snaking through the Tehachapi Pass between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hood designed a remarkable series of horseshoe and S-curves to traverse the lofty peaks and ridges along the way. The spiral ascends at a 2-percent grade for an elevation of 77 feet. A train longer than 4,000 feet (about 85 cars) passes over itself as it travels around the loop. He retired as chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Company. His career spanned 54 years (3 May 1867- 3 May 1921), in which time some 11,000 miles of track were laid. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_26.htm | ||1846: William Hood born ... civil engineer who invented California’s Tehachapi Loop, an elegant 0.73-mile railroad spiral. Called one of the seven wonders of the railroad world, it is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It is part of 28 miles of railroad snaking through the Tehachapi Pass between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hood designed a remarkable series of horseshoe and S-curves to traverse the lofty peaks and ridges along the way. The spiral ascends at a 2-percent grade for an elevation of 77 feet. A train longer than 4,000 feet (about 85 cars) passes over itself as it travels around the loop. He retired as chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Company. His career spanned 54 years (3 May 1867- 3 May 1921), in which time some 11,000 miles of track were laid. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_26.htm | ||
||1859: The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. | ||1859: The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. Pic. | ||
||1875: Ludwig Prandtl born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1875: Ludwig Prandtl born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1883: Reinhold Rudenberg ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. | ||1883: Reinhold Rudenberg ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. https://www.google.com/search?q=reinhold+rudenberg | ||
||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic | |||
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris. | File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris. | ||
||1903: Alexander Imich born ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic. | ||1903: Alexander Imich born ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+imich | ||
||1903: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html | ||1903: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html | ||
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File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids. | File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids. | ||
||1920: Sid Sackson born ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire. | ||1912: Franz Reichelt dies - tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Pic. | ||
||1920: Sid Sackson born ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sid+sackson | |||
||1921: Lotfi Zadeh born ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | ||1921: Lotfi Zadeh born ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | ||
||1925: Christopher Zeeman born ... mathematician and academic. His main contributions to mathematics were in topology, particularly in knot theory, the piecewise linear category, and dynamical systems. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1926: Jaroslav Hájek born ... mathematician who worked in theoretical and nonparametric statistics. The Hájek–Le Cam convolution theorem is named after Hájek and Lucien Le Cam. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jaroslav+hájek | ||
||1927: Rolf Landauer born ... physicist and academic. | ||1927: Rolf Landauer born ... physicist and academic. He discovered Landauer's principle, that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=rolf+landauer | ||
File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. | File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. | ||
||1932: Robert Lowell Coover born ... novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. | ||1932: Robert Lowell Coover born ... novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. (Alive as of February 2019.) Pic. | ||
||1945: World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. | ||1945: World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. Pic. | ||
||1967: Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. | ||1959: Robert Emerson dies ... scientist noted for his discovery that plants have two distinct photosynthetic reaction centers. | ||
||1967: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich | |||
||1967: Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. Pic. | |||
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. | File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. | ||
File:Two Men Who Fell to Earth.jpg|link=Two Men Who Fell to Earth|1983: Premiere of '''''[[Two Men Who Fell to Earth]]''''', a 1983 British-American film about two men (Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks) who wake up feeling strangely relaxed. Are they living the good life, California style? Or are they puppets of an alien rock star? Directed by David Bowie. | |||
||1984: Artist Patrick Nagel dies. He created popular illustrations on board, paper, and canvas, most of which emphasize the female form in a distinctive style descended from Art Deco. He is best known for his illustrations for Playboy magazine and the pop group Duran Duran, for whom he designed the cover of the best-selling album ''Rio''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=patrick+nagel | |||
||1989: Morton Landers Curtis dies ... mathematician, an expert on group theory. Together with Gustav A. Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space. Pic: search book cover. | ||1989: Morton Landers Curtis dies ... mathematician, an expert on group theory. Together with Gustav A. Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space. Pic: search book cover. | ||
||1995: The Connect Four game was mathematically solved first by James D. Allen (Oct 1, 1988), and independently by Victor Allis (Oct 16, 1988). First player can force a win. Strongly solved by John Tromp's 8-ply database (Feb 4, 1995). Weakly solved for all boardsizes where width+height is at most 15 (Feb 18, 2006). *Wik Pic. | |||
||2008: Endel Aruja dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Endel+Aruja | |||
||2010: Richard K. Lashof dies ... mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic. | ||2010: Richard K. Lashof dies ... mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic. | ||
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||2018: Alan Baker dies ... mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic. | ||2018: Alan Baker dies ... mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic. | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 15 February 2022
1615: Polymath Giambattista della Porta dies. Della Porta's most famous work, Magiae Naturalis (1558), covers a variety of the subjects he had investigated, including occult philosophy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, meteorology, and natural philosophy.
1774: Mathematician and geographer Charles Marie de La Condamine dies. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.
1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1983: Premiere of Two Men Who Fell to Earth, a 1983 British-American film about two men (Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks) who wake up feeling strangely relaxed. Are they living the good life, California style? Or are they puppets of an alien rock star? Directed by David Bowie.