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||1609: The telescope was demonstrated by Galileo. | ||1609: The telescope was demonstrated by Galileo. | ||
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1638: | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1638: [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]], in a letter to [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]], proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]]'s differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked. | ||
||1659: Henry Every born ... pirate. | ||1659: Henry Every born ... pirate. | ||
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||1723: Increase Mather dies ... minister and author. Pic. | ||1723: Increase Mather dies ... minister and author. Pic. | ||
||1768: Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet born ... surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. | ||1768: Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet born ... surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. Pic. | ||
||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic. Pic. | ||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic, "founding father of paleontology". Pic. | ||
||1776: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński born ... Messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, and economist. He was born Hoene to a municipal architect in 1776 but changed his name in 1815. In 1803, Wroński joined the Marseille Observatory but was forced to leave the observatory after his theories were dismissed as grandiose rubbish. In mathematics, Wroński introduced a novel series expansion for a function in response to Joseph Louis Lagrange's use of infinite series. The coefficients in Wroński's new series form the Wronskian, a determinant Thomas Muir named in 1882. Pic. | ||1776: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński born ... Messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, and economist. He was born Hoene to a municipal architect in 1776 but changed his name in 1815. In 1803, Wroński joined the Marseille Observatory but was forced to leave the observatory after his theories were dismissed as grandiose rubbish. In mathematics, Wroński introduced a novel series expansion for a function in response to Joseph Louis Lagrange's use of infinite series. The coefficients in Wroński's new series form the Wronskian, a determinant Thomas Muir named in 1882. Pic. | ||
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||1847: Sarah Frances Whiting born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||1847: Sarah Frances Whiting born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1869: Robert William Theodore Gunther born ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Pic search | ||1869: Robert William Theodore Gunther born ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Pic search. | ||
||1875: William Eccles born ... physicist and engineer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/william_eccles.htm | ||1875: William Eccles born ... physicist and engineer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/william_eccles.htm | ||
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||1904: The automobile tire chain is patented. | ||1904: The automobile tire chain is patented. | ||
||1919: Augustus George Vernon Harcourt dies ... chemist, pioneer of quantitative methodology in the field of chemical kinetics. Pic. | |||
||1919: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1919: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
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||1927: Nicola Sacco executed ... anarchist. Pic. | ||1927: Nicola Sacco executed ... anarchist. Pic. | ||
||1947: Roy Chadwick dies ... aeronautical engineer, who during WW I, designed the Avro 504 trainer. His other designs include the Baby (a truly light aircraft), Avian, and the Anson (used for RAF coastal reconnaissance). In WW II, he developed the Manchester and the famous Lancaster heavy bombers. Later, he worked jet-propelled planes, the Tudor and Ashton. He died in a test flight crash of the Tudor II prototype (control reversal), near Woodford airfield, Manchester. Pic. | ||1947: Roy Chadwick dies ... aeronautical engineer, who during WW I, designed the Avro 504 trainer. His other designs include the Baby (a truly light aircraft), Avian, and the Anson (used for RAF coastal reconnaissance). In WW II, he developed the Manchester and the famous Lancaster heavy bombers. Later, he worked jet-propelled planes, the Tudor and Ashton. He died in a test flight crash of the Tudor II prototype (control reversal), near Woodford airfield, Manchester. Pic. | ||
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||1977: Bryan Allen won the Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight as he pedalled the Gossamer Condor for at least a mile at Schafter, California. | ||1977: Bryan Allen won the Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight as he pedalled the Gossamer Condor for at least a mile at Schafter, California. | ||
||1982: Stanford Moore dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1982: Stanford Moore dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1986: Warren Perry Mason dies ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs. He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic. | ||1986: Warren Perry Mason dies ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs. He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic. | ||
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||1989: R. D. Laing dies ... psychiatrist who was noted for his alternative approach to the treatment of schizophrenia. His first book, The Divided Self, was an attempt to explain schizophrenia by using existentialist philosophy to vividly portray the inner world of a schizophrenic, which Laing presented as an attempt to live in an unlivable situation. His work tends to be dismissed by most psychiatrists; however, droves of mentally ill people insist that this was a man who truly understood how they felt. Laing always insisted that psychotherapists should act as shamans, exorcising the illness through a process of mutual catharsis. Since Laing refused to view mental illness in biomedical/clinical terms, he has often been labelled as part of the so-called 'antipsychiatry' movement. Pic. | ||1989: R. D. Laing dies ... psychiatrist who was noted for his alternative approach to the treatment of schizophrenia. His first book, The Divided Self, was an attempt to explain schizophrenia by using existentialist philosophy to vividly portray the inner world of a schizophrenic, which Laing presented as an attempt to live in an unlivable situation. His work tends to be dismissed by most psychiatrists; however, droves of mentally ill people insist that this was a man who truly understood how they felt. Laing always insisted that psychotherapists should act as shamans, exorcising the illness through a process of mutual catharsis. Since Laing refused to view mental illness in biomedical/clinical terms, he has often been labelled as part of the so-called 'antipsychiatry' movement. Pic. | ||
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | |File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | ||
||1991: Florence Seibert dies ... scientist who developed the protein substance used for the tuberculosis skin test, and contributed to safety measures for intravenous drug therapy. In the early 1920s, she discovered that the sudden fevers that sometimes occurred during intravenous injections were caused by bacteria in the distilled water used to make the protein solutions. She invented a distillation apparatus designed to prevent such contamination. In 1941, her improved TB skin test became the standard test in the U.S. and a year later was adopted by the World Health Organization. It is still in use today. Her later research involved the study of bacteria associated with certain cancers. Pic. | ||1991: Florence B. Seibert dies ... scientist who developed the protein substance used for the tuberculosis skin test, and contributed to safety measures for intravenous drug therapy. In the early 1920s, she discovered that the sudden fevers that sometimes occurred during intravenous injections were caused by bacteria in the distilled water used to make the protein solutions. She invented a distillation apparatus designed to prevent such contamination. In 1941, her improved TB skin test became the standard test in the U.S. and a year later was adopted by the World Health Organization. It is still in use today. Her later research involved the study of bacteria associated with certain cancers. Pic. | ||
||1991: The World Wide Web is opened to the public. | ||1991: The World Wide Web is opened to the public. | ||
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||1999: Charles Davis Hollister dies ... marine geologist whose pioneering studies of the deep-sea floor revealed not tranquil depths but that strong currents and storms occur there. He started the development of the giant piston coring system and in the 1970's, documented the longest continuous record of ocean basin history in a single 100-ft core sample that contained a continuous 65 million-year-long record of ocean-basin history. He also made significant discoveries concerning ocean sediment transport and directed the High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer Experiment (HEBBLE). Also, he initiated the sub-seabed concept and led the international team that studied the scientific feasibility of isolating high-level radioactive material into sediments below the sea floor. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_23.htm | ||1999: Charles Davis Hollister dies ... marine geologist whose pioneering studies of the deep-sea floor revealed not tranquil depths but that strong currents and storms occur there. He started the development of the giant piston coring system and in the 1970's, documented the longest continuous record of ocean basin history in a single 100-ft core sample that contained a continuous 65 million-year-long record of ocean-basin history. He also made significant discoveries concerning ocean sediment transport and directed the High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer Experiment (HEBBLE). Also, he initiated the sub-seabed concept and led the international team that studied the scientific feasibility of isolating high-level radioactive material into sediments below the sea floor. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_23.htm | ||
||2002: Stafford Beer dies ... theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. Pic search | ||2002: Stafford Beer dies ... theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. Pic search. | ||
||2004: Leopold Karl Schmetterer dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic. | ||2004: Leopold Karl Schmetterer dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic. | ||
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||2008: Thomas H. Weller dies ... physician, microbiologist and virologist who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (which shared with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures. This made it possible to study the virus “in the test tube,” a procedure that led to the development of polio vaccines. Pic. | ||2008: Thomas H. Weller dies ... physician, microbiologist and virologist who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (which shared with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures. This made it possible to study the virus “in the test tube,” a procedure that led to the development of polio vaccines. Pic. | ||
||2012: James Burton Serrin dies ... mathematician, and a professor at the University of Minnesota. Pic search | ||2012: James Burton Serrin dies ... mathematician, and a professor at the University of Minnesota. Pic search. | ||
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1638: René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.
1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.