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||240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
||240 BC: First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.


File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies.
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies.


||1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
||1555: Gemma Frisius dies ... physician, mathematician, and cartographer.


||1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
||1632: Adam Tanner dies ... mathematician and philosopher,


File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.


||1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (d. 25 May [O.S. 13 May] 1866) was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin.
||1866: Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman dies ... mathematician.


||Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen (d. 25 May 1878) was a German mathematician and physicist. Pic.
||1878: Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.


||Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman (b. 25 May 1894) was a British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. Pic.
||1894: Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman born ... was a British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. Pic.


||Calvin Souther Fuller (b. May 25, 1902) was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. Pic.
||1902: Calvin Souther Fuller born ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. Pic.


||Milton Stanley Livingston (b. May 25, 1905) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators.
||1905: Milton Stanley Livingston born ... accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators.


||Raymond Merrill Smullyan (b. May 25, 1919) was an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.
||1919: Raymond Merrill Smullyan born ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.


||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1924: Ashutosh Mukherjee dies ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee


||Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (d. 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee
||1925: Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
 
||1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.


||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.
||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.


||1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
||1953: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.


||Johann Karl August Radon (d. – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
||1956: Johann Karl August Radon dies ... mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.


||1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
||1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.


||1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
||1966: Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.


||1967: Charles Bowers Momsen dies ... was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. In May 1939, Momsen directed the rescue of the crew of Squalus (SS-192). Pic.
||1967: Charles Bowers Momsen dies ... was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. In May 1939, Momsen directed the rescue of the crew of Squalus (SS-192). Pic.


||1978 – The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
||1978: Bruno Touschek dies ... physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders. Pic.
 
||1978: The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.


File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
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File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.


||1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
||1981: Ruby Payne-Scott dies ... physicist and astronomer.


||Ernst Stuhlinger (d. May 25, 2008) was a German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic.
||2008: Ernst Stuhlinger dies ... German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic.


||2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
||2008: NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.


||2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
||2009: North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.


||2012 – The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
||2012: The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.


||Gyula Kosice (d. 2016) was a Czechoslovakian-born Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard.
||2016: Gyula Kosice dies ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard.


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Revision as of 14:34, 5 November 2018

  • 986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.

    986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.

  • 1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.

    1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.

  • 1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

    1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

  • 1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

    1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

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