Saturday, February 20, 2016

20 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



On this day in history, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
http://www.cedmagazine.com/article/2015/02/today-engineering-history-first-american-orbits-earth


Beyond History of Science: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield
Elizabeth Garber
Lehigh University Press, 1990 - 325 pages
This collection focuses on the intellectual development of the sciences, their relationships with technology, and their place in culture in general including a proposed realignment of science, technology, and art.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=cyTRqSduJFkC


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Cognitive Resources Theory of Leadership

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

16 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was formed in (New York City


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Gestalt Techniques in Supervision and Management

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Sunday, February 14, 2016

14 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management




1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia
1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
1929 - Pencillin was discovered
            http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/penicillin-discovered

Groups - Group Dynamics

Motivation - Organizational Behavior

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Saturday, February 13, 2016

13 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


February 13  - Chemistry Knowledge History

Birthdays - Famous Chemistry Scientists and Process Developers

Étienne-François Geoffroy 1672: chemical affinities; displacement reactions in salt

Heinrich Caro 1834: Caro's acid (H2SO5), dye chemistry.
Henry Clemens Pearson  1858: rubber scientist and editor;


Business and Management

2012 Investigation of US Dept. of Justice Antitrust Division into acquision of Motorola Mobility by Google is closed.     http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-at-210.html

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Organizational Behavior – Theoretical Frameworks

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

11 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



National Inventors' Day in USA

Ronald Reagan as President of the United States proclaimed February 11, 1983 as National Inventors' Day, Proclamation 5013, to "...call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities".
In recognition of the enormous contribution inventors make to the nation and the world, the Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 (Public Law 97 - 198), has designated February 11, the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who held over 1,000 patents, as National Inventors' Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventors'_Day


Events

1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA




Birthday

1847 Thomas Alva Edison


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10 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


February 10 - Chemistry Knowledge History

Birthdays

Per Teodor Cleve  1840: discovered holmium and thulium; suggested "didymium" was not elementary; naphthalene derivatives.
John Franklin Enders  1897: showed polio virus was not only neurotropic; Nobel Prize (Medicine), 1954.
Ira Remsen  1846: Organic chemist; founder of American Chemical Journal; first professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University; saccharin was discovered in his lab


Engineering

1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia


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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

8 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



February 8 -  - Chemistry Knowledge History




Robert Holton announces total synthesis of taxol, an important cancer drug, 1994.


Birthdays

Bernard Courtois  1777: discovered iodine (I, element 53) from seaweed
Friedlieb Runge born 1795: discovered carbolic acid (phenol) and aniline in coal tar; dry distillation


Dmitrii Mendeleev born 1834 : periodic law and periodic table.
http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2008/01/iit-jee-ch-4-periodicity-of-properties.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/07/who-was-dmitri-mendeleev-and-how-did-he-order-the-periodic-table/


Francis Robert Japp  born 1848: benzil, benzoin, and phenanthraquinone.
Moses Gomberg born 1866: work on triphenylmethyl (first stable organic free radical); tautomerism



Physics

1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

Birthday
08 February 1700- Happy Birthday to Daniel Bernoulli who was a physicist and made large contributions to the field of fluid dynamics. He is also the Bernoulli of the famous "Bernoulli Principle" or "Bernoulli Equation"
http://iit-jee-physics.blogspot.in/2008/07/bernoullis-equation.html


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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. became a blogger
http://kvssnrao.blogspot.com/2006/02/became-blogger.html




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9 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management




February 9  - Chemistry Knowledge History

1950 - Californium (Cf, element 98) discovered by  Kenneth Street, Jr., Stanley G. Thompson, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Albert Ghiorso using ion-exchange chromatography at University of California, Berkeley,

Birthdays

Edward Charles Baly  1871: showed that organic compounds, including sugars, can be formed photochemically from water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia

Lloyd Ferguson  1918: chemical educator
Norman Bruce Hannay  1921: materials for solid state electronics
(http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.com/2012/07/chemistry-knowledge-history-february.html)


February 9  - Mathematics Knowledge History

1883 The very first issue of Science is published. The first item in the “Weekly summary of the progess of science” contains a report by Thomas Craig that “Lindemann gave a proof of the fact that π cannot be a root of an equation of any degree with rational co-eficients.

1986 Halley’s comet last reached perihelion. The next return to perihelion will be on 28 July 2061. (Mathematics helps to predict such long terms events with such precision.)


Birthdays

1489 Georg Hartmann ( February 9, 1489) was a German engineer, instrument maker, author, printer, humanist, churchman, and astronomer.

1775 Farkas Bolyai (9 Feb 1775) Hungarian mathematician, poet, and dramatist who spent a lifetime trying to prove Euclid's (fifth) postulate that parallel lines do not meet.

1880 Lipót Fejér (9 Feb 1880 Fejér's main work was in harmonic analysis working on Fourier series and their singularities.

1907 Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (9 Feb 1907 ) graduated from Cambridge and worked most of his life in Canada. His work was mainly in geometry. In particular he made contributions of major importance in the theory of polytopes, non-euclidean geometry, group theory and combinatorics.

1908 Alexander Dinghas (February 9, 1908) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for his work in different areas of mathematics including differential equations, functions of a complex variable, functions of several complex variables, measure theory and differential geometry

1927 David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927) the Inventor of the Wheeler Jump, In 1951, he introduced the concept of the subroutine to computer programming,
http://pballew.blogspot.in/2015/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-9.html




A website for mathematics history  is http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Day_files/Now.html hosted by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.  The MAA also has a nice page http://mathdl.maa.org.

For reading a theorem for the day, check out http://www.theoremoftheday.org/display/ by Robin Whitty.

http://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2012/09/07/day-mathematics-history/



Physics

Interesting Site

Oral Histories - Interviews
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4724
Thomas Kuhn with H.G. Kuhn



Engineering

1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.




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Saturday, February 6, 2016

6 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


February 6  - Chemistry Knowledge History


Clemens Winkler, in the course of analyzing a mineral, discovered element (germanium, Ge, element 32) in 1886, consistent with predictions by J. A. R. Newlands and Dmitrii Mendeleev.

Birthdays

William Parry Murphy 1892: diabetes; pernicious anemia and other blood diseases; Nobel Prize (Medicine), 1934

Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinskii 1861: catalysis of hydrocarbon disproportionations; bromination of fatty acids (Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction)


News 2013

Nanobubbles treatment for Cancer

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

3 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management




Chemistry


Birthdays:
Leonora Neuffer Bilger  1893: asymmetric nitrogen compounds; Received Garvan Medal in 1953
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Bilger


History of Mathematics


This Day in Math - February 3
http://pballew.blogspot.in/2013/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-3.html


http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Day_files/Day203.html


http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Day_files/Year.html

HOME PAGE OF MATH 2720W - History of Mathematics - Spring 2015
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/math2720s15/


Support site to History of Mathematics (MA 330)
http://www.ms.uky.edu/~corso/teaching/math330.html


Google Book

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

Eleanor Robson, Jacqueline Stedall
OUP Oxford, Dec 18, 2008 - 926 pages


This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what counts as a historical source. Material and oral evidence isdrawn upon as well as an unusual array of textual sources. Further, the ways in which people have chosen to express themselves are as historically meaningful as the contents of the mathematics they have produced. Mathematics is not a fixed and unchanging entity. New questions, contexts, and applications all influence what counts as productive ways of thinking. Because the history of mathematics should interact constructively with other ways of studying the past, the contributors to this book come from a diverse range of intellectual backgrounds in anthropology, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and literature, as well as history of mathematics more traditionally understood. The thirty-six self-contained, multifaceted chapters, each written by a specialist, are arranged under three main headings: 'Geographies and Cultures', 'Peoples and Practices', and 'Interactions and Interpretations'. Together they deal with the mathematics of 5000 years, but without privileging the past three centuries, and an impressive range of periods and places with many points of cross-reference between chapters. The key mathematical cultures of North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, and China are all represented here as well as areas which are not often treated in mainstream history of mathematics, such as Russia, the Balkans, Vietnam, and South America. A vital reference for graduates and researchers in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HIMiWHVKLDkC

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4 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management



February 4  - Chemistry Knowledge History

Joseph Goldberger begins the experiment that demonstrates that pellagra is a dietary disease, 1915.


John Jacob Livingood made radium E (210Bi) by bombarding common bismuth with deuterons, 1936, the first synthetis of a radioactive substance in the US.

Birthdays

Friedrich Hund born 1896: Hund's rules for electron configurations, the first of which predicts maximum multiplicity of spin; molecular-orbital theory (Hund-Mulliken approach).
IIT - JEE  http://iit-jee-chemistry.blogspot.in/2015/05/ch1-atomic-structure-and-chemical.html



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