Every entry has been fully cross-checked with official sources for complete accuracy. Later he returned to the monastery, where he applied his botanical skills to investigating patterns in the physical features of successive generations of pea plants. Subscribers, enter your e-mail address for full access to the Science News archives and digital editions. 1st January 1919 - J. D. Salinger's birthday, author of Catcher in the Rye 3rd January 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien's birthday, author of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings This comic book movie was the wind-up for the knockout punch that another Marvel film would later deliver that same year. 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To celebrate our centennial, we have made our entire archive available for free. The list is by no means exhaustive, simply a starting point. But quality journalism comes at a price. One of Al-Nayrzs treatises for the caliph discussed how to determine the distance to upright objects. Headlines and summaries of the latest Science News articles, delivered to your inbox. The school sat near oil and gas fields; the explosions killed 300 students/teachers. But in the mid-1920s her fascination with a newfangled idea called quantum mechanics induced her to shift to physics. Has there been a more perfect adaptation of A Christmas Carol than the one that included the Muppets? It established Anderson as something of a trash auteur, creating increasingly more contrived excuses to make zombie action films starring his eventual wife Milla Jovovich. Or. 5 th January - 100 th anniversary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton. 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He devised vaccines for various diseases, including one to cure rabies. June 2022. And although he received no medical education, he provided the foundation for modern medicines ability to fight disease. He showed how values for temperature, humidity, air pressure and other weather data from one day could be processed by his equations to make a forecast for the next day. It can be used as a resource to plan. That doctor, Frederick Banting, had tried the idea with dogs the year before and gave the first insulin injection to a human, a 14-year-old boy, in January 1922. Count Orloks lanky, bat-like appearance has been a template for vampiric monstrosity for decades, and the strange thing is that it almost did not survive the tests of time. Lewis Fry Richardson, a mathematician who later turned to psychology, worked early in his career at Englands National Peat Industries. Here are the Top 10 science anniversaries of 2022 Insulin to treat diabetes, the slide rule and the birthdays of Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur make the list By Tom Siegfried Contributing. By now Pioneer 10 is roughly 12 billion miles away, headed in the direction of the star Aldebaran. Additionally, UNESCO commemorates historic events and anniversaries of eminent personalities, who helped shape the civilization we share by contributing to the mutual enrichment of cultures for universal understanding and peace. Society for Science & the Public 20002023. During World War II, Aage accompanied his father to the United States to work on the Manhattan Project, afterwards returning to his native Denmark to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen. Warner Bros. infamously did not know what to do with this supposedly kid-friendly film at the time and killed the potential for Burton to make further sequels, but time has only deepened appreciation for this particular installment in the Batman mythos. In 1614 John Napier had invented logarithms, showing how multiplication could be accomplished by addition. This list shows author's birthdays, deaths, publication dates and important literary dates; a useful literary calendar.. That was only fair, as when Fermi disappeared from Columbia University in 1941 to work on the bomb, Goeppert Mayer was hurriedly recruited to teach his class. Creating a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of the best-paced and emotionally resonant action cartoons ever made, seems like an exceedingly poor choice on paper. There is probably no television show that defined the so-called Golden Age of television quite like The Wire. President Hayes installed the first phone. The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Jan. 1. Apparently nobody very astute read his paper, not even Charles Darwin, who would have been intrigued by Mendels mention that his work was relevant to the history of the evolution of organic forms. Only at the dawn of the 20th century was Mendels work translated into English and then recognized for its importance to heredity, evolution and biology in general. on September 22, 1862. This was such a great narrative choice that the show boomed in popularity, prompting Nickelodeon to expand the show from miniseries to four season epic that makes for an incredible companion to the legendary show that preceded it. We're happy to share our birth year (and our 100th anniversary ) with the Lincoln Memorial, Jack Kerouac, the BBC, the blender, Wimbledon's Centre Court, the Harlem Renaissance, The Velveteen. Historical anniversaries calendar. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: In an emergency session, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The United Nations reports that over a million, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following an attack by its troops on the, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following an, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: As Russia's forces retreat from areas near Kyiv, it is accused by Ukraine of, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following a missile attack on, At least 158 people are killed and another 197 injured in a, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 20:11. Looper could celebrate its tenth anniversary on any number of criteria. But there are also some notable firsts (the original slide rule, for instance) and births, including the scientist who illuminated how science could save society from devastating infectious diseases. March 2022. Many prominent figures died in 2022, including world leaders Shinzo Abe, Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Elizabeth II, Jiang Zemin, and Pope Benedict XVI; entertainers Sidney Poitier, Olivia Newton-John, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jean-Luc Godard, and Angela Lansbury; and footballer Pel.[2][3][4]. The year 2022 is marked with several political events, birth anniversaries, big film premieres and much more. Pasteurs understanding of microorganisms led to the recognition of their capacity to damage human health. Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922, the same year as the birth of his son Aage. The Last Unicorn is the kind of film that only grows in esteem with its audience as they grow older. 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