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||1533: Theodor Zwinger born ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic. | ||1533: Theodor Zwinger born ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic. | ||
||1754: Pierre Charles L'Enfant born ... architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. | ||1754: Pierre Charles L'Enfant born ... architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L%27Enfant | ||
||1776: Friedrich Stromeyer bor ... chemist. While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts. Pic. | ||1776: Friedrich Stromeyer bor ... chemist. While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts. Pic. | ||
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||1799: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier dies ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||1799: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier dies ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||
||1788: Leopold Gmelin born ... chemist and academic. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. | ||1788: Leopold Gmelin born ... chemist and academic. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic. | ||
||1823: Lazare Carnot dies ...mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention. | ||1823: Lazare Carnot dies ...mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention. | ||
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1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1917: Mathematician and crime-fighter Ferdinand Georg Frobenius publishes theory of elliptic functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with Edward Lorenz.
1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.