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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1742: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist. Pic. | ||1742: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist. Pic. | ||
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||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles born ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic. | ||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles born ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1746: Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes born ... he will be leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese colonial power and creation of a Brazilian republic. Pic. | ||
||1793: | File:Jean_Sylvain_Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791. | ||
||1833: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin born ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic. | ||1833: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin born ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic. | ||
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||1842: John William Strutt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. | ||1842: John William Strutt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. | ||
||1847: William Christopher Zeise dies ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. | ||1847: William Christopher Zeise dies ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic. | ||
||1881: Erich Regener born ... physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes. He is also known for predicting a 2.8 K cosmic background radiation,[1] for the invention of the scintillation counter which contributed to the discovery of the structure of the atom, for his calculation of the charge of an electron and for his early work on atmospheric ozone. He is also credited with the first use of rockets for scientific research. Pic. | |||
||1902: William Henry Barlow dies ... engineer. | ||1902: William Henry Barlow dies ... engineer. | ||
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||1912: The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. | ||1912: The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. | ||
||1916: Percival Lowell dies ... American astronomer, mathematician, and author. | ||1916: Percival Lowell dies ... American astronomer, mathematician, and author. Pic. | ||
||1920: Georges Henri Reeb born ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | ||1920: Georges Henri Reeb born ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | ||
||1923: Irving S. Reed born ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irving+S.+Reed | |||
||1927: Yutaka Taniyama born ... mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic. | ||1927: Yutaka Taniyama born ... mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic. | ||
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File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying. | File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying. | ||
||1944: Otto Blumenthal dies ... mathematician and academic. Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name. Pic. | |||
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation. | File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation. | ||
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges. | File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges. | ||
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||1981: Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. | ||1981: Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. | ||
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. | File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. | ||
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||1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | ||1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | ||
||1998: Sally Shlaer dies ... mathematician and engineer. | ||1998: Sally Shlaer dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
||2005: Computer scientist Jerre Noe dies. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jerre+Noe | |||
||2013: Mavis Lilian Batey dies ... code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html | ||2013: Mavis Lilian Batey dies ... code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html | ||
||2013: Aleksandr Serebrov dies ... engineer and | ||2013: Aleksandr Serebrov dies ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp. | ||
||2014: John Briscoe dies ... epidemiologist, engineer, and academic. | ||2014: John Briscoe dies ... epidemiologist, water engineer, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer | ||
||2014: Valery Senderov dies ... Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Valery+Senderov | ||2014: Valery Senderov dies ... Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Valery+Senderov | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 7 February 2022
1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.
1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant Abe Reles falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.