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||1682 | ||1682: Roger Cotes born ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||
||Christian Ludwig Gerling | ||1788: Mathematician Christian Ludwig Gerling born ... He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. | ||
||Carl Culmann | ||1821: Carl Culmann born ... structural engineer. Pic. | ||
||1832 | ||1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. | ||
||1851 | ||1851: Louis Daguerre dies ... photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype. | ||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | ||
||Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii | ||1858: Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii born ... mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He will work in differential and algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||
||1902 | ||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Johann Gottfried Galle | ||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify | ||
|| | ||1914: Bonnie Madison Stewart (July 10, 1914 – April 15, 1994) mathematician and academic. He will publish (1954) a complete characterization of the practical numbers in terms of their factorizations; later, he will be the namesake of Stewart toroids. No pic, but seek book cover. | ||
|| | ||1920: Owen Chamberlain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||1925: Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. | ||
|| | ||1927: Grigory Barenblatt born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to fracture mechanics, fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids, turbulence, and self-similarities. Pic. | ||
||Salvatore Pincherle | ||1931: Peter P. Sorokin born ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||
||1936: Salvatore Pincherle dies ... mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. | |||
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1942 | ||1942: An American naval aviator discovered a downed Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, US, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against that type of aircraft. | ||
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | ||
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||1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster | ||1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster | ||
||1997 | ||1997: In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. | ||
||Yoji Totsuka | ||2008: Yoji Totsuka dies ... physicist. | ||
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. |
Revision as of 16:32, 25 October 2018
1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1938: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn uses combinatorics, logic, and Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Signed first edition of Golden Spiral is stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by criminal artificial intelligence Gnotilus.