23 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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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20 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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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19 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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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May - Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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

http://todayinsci.com/5/5_17.htm

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16 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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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11 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1960 -  Pioneer V was launched from Cape Canaveral

Birthdays

1822 Joseph Bertrand - Bertrand competition in oligopoly


Management Knowledge Revision

Brand Positioning

Strategy of Market Leader


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