Template:Selected anniversaries/February 15: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
||1856: Emil Kraepelin born ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic. | ||1856: Emil Kraepelin born ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic. | ||
||1861: Charles Édouard Guillaume born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1861: Charles Édouard Guillaume born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
| Line 40: | Line 40: | ||
||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. | ||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic. | ||
||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 08:21, 13 May 2019
1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.