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Selected anniversaries
February 13
:
1633
-
Galileo Galilei
arrives in
Rome
for his trial before the
Inquisition
1672
- Birth of
Étienne François Geoffroy
, French chemist (d. 1731)
1743
- Birth of
Joseph Banks
, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
1787
- Death of
Ruđer Bošković
, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
1805
- Birth of
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
, German mathematician (d. 1859)
1880
-
Thomas Edison
observes the
Edison effect
1910
- Birth of
William Shockley
, American physicist and eugenicist,
Nobel Laureate
(d. 1989)
1956
- Death of
Jan Łukasiewicz
, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
1960
-
Nuclear testing
: France tests
its first atomic bomb
1992
- Death of
Nikolay Bogolyubov
, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1997
- Death of
Mark Krasnosel'skii
, Russian–Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
2004
- The
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
discovers the universe's largest known
diamond
,
white dwarf
star
BPM 37093
2005
- Death of
Emilios T. Harlaftis
, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:History of science
|
Selected anniversaries
February 13
:
1633
-
Galileo Galilei
arrives in
Rome
for his trial before the
Inquisition
1672
- Birth of
Étienne François Geoffroy
, French chemist (d. 1731)
1743
- Birth of
Joseph Banks
, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
1787
- Death of
Ruđer Bošković
, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
1805
- Birth of
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
, German mathematician (d. 1859)
1880
-
Thomas Edison
observes the
Edison effect
1910
- Birth of
William Shockley
, American physicist and eugenicist,
Nobel Laureate
(d. 1989)
1956
- Death of
Jan Łukasiewicz
, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
1960
-
Nuclear testing
: France tests
its first atomic bomb
1992
- Death of
Nikolay Bogolyubov
, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1997
- Death of
Mark Krasnosel'skii
, Russian–Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
2004
- The
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
discovers the universe's largest known
diamond
,
white dwarf
star
BPM 37093
2005
- Death of
Emilios T. Harlaftis
, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
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