11 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

868 -  Presently available oldest book with a date printed on it. 11 May 868. Diamond Sutra - A Buddhist Book
1928 - Radio station WGY started first scheduled TV broadcasts
1947 - Development of tubeless tyre
1949 - First Polaroid camera sold for $ 89.95
1951 - Jay Forrester patented computer core memory
1960 - FDA approved the contraceptive pill
1987 - A heart transplant was done along with lungs, and the heart of the recipient was donated to another person.

Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners

1918 Richard Feynman
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman.html

1924 Antony Hewish  Physics - Discovery of pulsars
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1974/hewish-facts.html


Other Scientists
1752 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
1854 Ottman Mergenthaler
1871 Frank Schlesinger
1872 Mary Llewellyn Cooke (Management)
1881 Theodore von Karman
1897 George P. Murdock
1914 Haroun Tazieff
1946  Robert K. Jarvik - Invented Jarvik - 7, the first artificial heart inplanted inside a human body.

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Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners

Santiago Ramon y Cazal - Medicine


Popular Science Issue 1 of Volume 1 was published in May of 1872
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_1

Patents

1888 Patent #382,280 was granted to Nikola Tesla for the "electrical transmission of power".

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Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners

1939 - Sidney Altman
           http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1989/altman-facts.html


Patents

1878 Fire Escape Ladder patented by Joseph Winters.


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Birthdays

1939  Kenneth Blanchard - One Minute Manager



Nobel Prize Winners

Patents

1851 Ice-making machine patent - John Gorrie

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Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners

1921 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow
            http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1981/schawlow-facts.html


Others

1946 - Jerry A. Hausman (Management)


Patents

1809 Mary Kies was the first women to get a patent. It was for a process for "weaving straw with silk or thread".


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Birthdays

1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley

Nobel Prize Winners


Patents

1943 Patent for helicopter controls obtained by Igor Sikorsky.
Sikorsky is also  inventor of  fixed winged and multi-engined aircraft, transoceanic flying boats and helicopters.


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1892 George Paget Thomson  Physics
1902 Alfred Kastler   Physics
1933 Steven Weinberg   Physics

Others

1916 Sidney S. Alexander (Management)


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Birthdays

1947 Sir James Dyson - Inventor - Dual Cyclone Bagless Vacuum Cleaner




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Birthdays

1931 Philip Kotler in Chicago, Illinois State, USA
        Marketing Concept by Kotler

1943 Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation - tit for tat strategy - forgiveness strategy




Nobel Prize Winners

1897 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft - Physics
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/cockcroft-facts.html

Patents

1796 James McLean was issued a patent for a piano.

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Birthdays

1947 - Michael Porter
            Video lectures by Porter on Strategy

Nobel Prize Winners

1908 John Bardeen - Physics - Two time Nobel Prize Winner
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/bardeen-facts.html
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1972/bardeen-facts.html
1925 Joshua Lederberg - Medicine
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-facts.html


2011
News
A group of European scientists have set a new speed record in data transmission using single laser. They sent 26 terabits per second using a single laser. Earlier Japanese have sent 109 terabits per second using multiple lasers.

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1929 - First day of First International Congress of History of Science in Paris.

Birthdays

1851 Emile Berliner of Germany, the inventor of the gramaphone
1861 - Henry Gantt (Industrial Engineering - Gantt Chart)

1913 - Bill Hewlett - Co-founder, Hewlett Packard
1926 - Edwin C. Nevis (Management)




Nobel Prize Winners

1860 Eduard Buchner - Chemistry
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1907/buchner-facts.html
1918 Edward B. Lewis - Medicine or Physiology
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/lewis-facts.html

Other Scientists  Engineers and Management Scholars

1861 - Henry Gantt (Management)
1926 - Edwin C. Nevis (Management)

Patents

1830 D. Hyde patented the fountain pen.
         http://www.trivia-library.com/a/history-and-story-behind-inventions-fountain-pen.htm
1958 Robert Baumann obtained a patent for a satellite structure.

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Birthdays

1908 Harold Koontz (Principles of Management)
1933 Edward De Bono -  Lateral thinking



Nobel Prize Winners - Birthdays

1897 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood - Chemistry
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1956/hinshelwood-facts.html
1914 Max Ferdinand Perutz - Chemistry
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1962/perutz-facts.html


Patents

1896 Edward Acheson was issued a patent for an electrical furnace used to produce one of the hardest industrial substances, carborundum.


News
2013
Patent filed for a tooth brush can deliver caffein by Colgate Palmolive.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/caffeine-toothbrush-caffeinated-colgate_n_3292291.html
http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/15630/20130516/colgate-files-patent-caffeine-infused-toothbrush.htm

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Date Wise Knowledge History


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Birthdays Management Scholars and Professionals

19 - Harold Koontz - Principles of Management
23  Michael Porter



Einstein and General Relativity
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200505/history.cfm

17 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1871 Society of Telegraph Engineers came into existence, in London, UK.
         http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/guides-iet.cfm


Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners

1897 Odd Hassel - Chemistry
          http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1969/hassel-facts.html


Other Scientists, Engineers and Managers

1749 - Edward Jenner
1776 - Amos Eaton
1836 - Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer - Discoverer of Helium

Patents

1839 Lorenzo Adkins patented a water wheel.
1938 Patent issued for workholder device for endless conveyors
         https://www.google.com/patents/US2117641

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Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners


1845 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Medicine
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1908/mechnikov-facts.html
1923 Merton H Miller Economics
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1990/miller-facts.html
1950 J. Georg Bednorz
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1987/bednorz-facts.html

Others

1914 Edward T. Hall (Management)
1977 Catherine Tucker (Management)


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14 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1796 - Edward Jenner administered his first experimental immunisation dose.
1853 - Gail Borden invented her process for condensed milk.
1856 - Charles Darwin began writing his book "The Origin of Species"
1878 - The name Vaseline was registered as a trademark.
1963 - First patent on Solar Air Plane (First pubic test flight of solar air plane E-Fan was done on 25 April 2014)
1973 - United States launched "Skylab One"



Birthdays

1815 - George Fownes - Prepared furfurine and benzoline
1863 - John Charles Fields - Mathematicians - Fields Medal in mathematics was funded by him.
1872 - Mikhail Semyonovich Tswett - Father of Chromotography
1893 - William R. Spriegel (Management)

1984 - Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook - This digital media vehicle also helped knowledge creation and knowledge transfer)

Blog Posts on Knowledge topics 14 April 2014
E-Fan - Electric Airplane by Airbus

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Birthday

1544 William Gilbert, who invented the word electric, suggested electricity & magnetism are 2 aspects of the same force.
1878 - Lilian Gilbreth (Industrial Engineering - Industrial Psychology)
1898 Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig - Developed Blalock Taussig Shunt (Surgical procedure)

1930- Paul Cootner (Finance - Random Walk Theory)


Nobel Prize Winners




Patents

1938 patent issued for Feeding mechanism for saw mills
         https://www.google.com/patents/US2118496

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Nobel Prize Winners


1857 Ronald Ross Medicine
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/ross-facts.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ross

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/ross-bio.html

Nobel lecture of Ronald Ross
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/ross-lecture.pdf


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1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals was patented

Birthdays

Nobel Prize Winners


1895 William Francis Giauque  Chemistry
          http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1949/giauque-facts.html
1910 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chemistry - Determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. Molecular structure of Pencillin, B12 etc.
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-facts.html

Others

1914 - Thomas H. Carroll II


Miscellaneous News

2014 Google showed a doodle on 12 May 2014 to honor Dorothy Hodgkin
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/dorothy-hodgkin-google-doodle-celebrates-114th-birthday-of-nobel-prizewinning-british-chemist-9353147.html

A joint New Zealand-German research team has discovered a huge network of frozen methane and methane gas in sediments and in the ocean near New Zealand’s east coast.
http://www.niwa.co.nz/news/joint-new-zealand-german-3d-survey-reveals-massive-seabed-gas-hydrate-and-methane-system


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1852 - The theory of valence was announced by Sir Edward Frankland
1860 Discovery of Cesium announced

1975 First video casette recorded sold in Japan

Birthdays


Nobel Prize Winners


1930 George E. Smith   Physics
         http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/smith-facts.html

Others

1788 - Augustin Jean Fresnell
1800 - Charles Knowlton
1919 Daniel Bell - Sociologist
1930 William James Reddin (Management)
1935 Ikujiro Nonaka (Management)


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2014
Suggested readings for Financial Risk Management Course
http://blog.garven.com/2014/05/10/suggested-books-and-readings-on-finance-and-risk-management/

Biologists spot 14 new species of dancing frogs in W-Ghats of India
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/405903/biologists-spot-14-species-dancing.html


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