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||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.
||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.


||1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
||1795: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger born ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] correlates [[transdimensional corporations]] with [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] correlates [[transdimensional corporations]] with [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics.


||1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born inventor who moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41. He remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899.[1][2] He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun
||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun.


||Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix (d. 5 February 1845) was a French optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.
||1845: Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix dies ... optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.


||1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
||1869: The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.


||1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
||1878: André Citroën born ... engineer and businessman, founded Citroën.


||1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (d. 1973) Gabriel Voisin (February 5, 1880 – December 25, 1973) was an aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight
||1880: Gabriel Voisin born ... pilot and engineer ... an aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight


||Wilhelm Magnus (b. February 5, 1907) was a German American mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations.
||1882: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler born ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass).


||1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
||1907: Wilhelm Magnus born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations.


||1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)
||1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.


||1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1910: Charles Philippe Leblond born ... biologist and academic.


||Robert Hofstadter (b. February 5, 1915) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
||1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin born ... physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
||1915: Robert Hofstadter born ... physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".


||1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
||1922: Slavoljub Eduard Penkala dies ... engineer, invented the mechanical pencil.


||Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (b. 5 February 1927) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic.
||1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.


||Kazimierz Urbanik (b. February 5, 1930) was a prominent member of the Polish School of Mathematics. He founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics and served as rector of the University of Wrocław. Pic.
||1927: Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth born ... plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic.


||1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
||1930: Kazimierz Urbanik born ... prominent member of the Polish School of Mathematics. He founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics and served as rector of the University of Wrocław. Pic.


||Gheorghe Țițeica (d. 5 February 1939) publishing as George or Georges Tzitzeica) was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.
||1937: Wang Xuan born ... computer scientist and academic.
 
||1939: Gheorghe Țițeica dies ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.


File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]].

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