2015 Event At the 87th Academy Awards, 'Birdman' is awarded Best Picture, Eddie Redmayne wins Best Actor for his role as Stephen Hawking in 'A Theory of Everything,' and Julianne Moore wins Best Actress for her role in 'Still Alice' 2014 Event Scientists using the BICEP2 telescope identify evidence for cosmic inflation; if confirmed, this evidence will provide support for the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe 2013 Event The scientific theory of supersymmetry is challenged after experiments with the Large Hadron Collider yield an incredibly rare particle decay event 2012 Event A study describing the Big Bang, published in 'Physical Review', suggests it is actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, a theory which best supports how spacetime could originate from original matter 2012 Event After 70 years, two papers on Alan Turing's theory of code-breaking are released to the U.K.'s National Archives 2010 Event Remains of a human that lived 400,000 years ago are discovered in Israel, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa 2010 Event The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids 2002 Death Stephen Jay Gould, "educator, writer", The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, dies at 60 1985 Event Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 1980 Death Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84 1979 Death Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65 1976 Event Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity 1976 Death Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74 1966 Death Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71 1965 Event Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies 1956 Birthday Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction 1953 Event Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory 1953 Event Einstein announces revised unified field theory 1948 Event Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow 1945 Birthday Claude van de Berge, Rony MF Pauwels, Flemish writer, Graph Theory 1943 Birthday Howard Gardner, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, psychologist, invented theory of multiple intelligences, influenced by Jerome Bruner, Nelson Goodman, Jean Piaget, MacArthur Prize Fellowship, 1981 1941 Death Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 1931 Birthday Richard Rorty, born in New York City, philosopher, focused on philosophy of language, of mind, politics, literary theory 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1926 Event Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools 1925 Event Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution 1925 Birthday Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment 1922 Death Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33 1921 Event Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity 1921 Event Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity 1920 Birthday Thomas Gold, astronomer, proposed steady-state theory of universe 1916 Event Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented 1915 Event Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity 1915 Birthday Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory 1915 Birthday Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory, Capitaine Bruno 1914 Birthday Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum 1912 Birthday Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine 1911 Birthday Anatol Rapoport, Russian/US mathem/biologist, game theory 1908 Event Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light 1906 Event Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity 1902 Birthday Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension 1901 Birthday Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory 1891 Birthday Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist, Theory of Money and Capital 1890 Birthday Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory, Orfeo 1888 Death Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 1885 Birthday Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, theory of relativity 1882 Birthday Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player, openings theory 1879 Birthday Emile Argand, Swiss geologist, Dekbladen Theory 1869 Birthday Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher, Theory of the Dialects 1866 Death Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies 1861 Birthday Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory 1857 Birthday Thorstein Veblen, U.S., economist, Theory of the Leisure Class-1899 1854 Birthday Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education 1849 Birthday Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman 1848 Birthday Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher, Theory of Social Revolutions 1834 Birthday Leon Walras, French economist, border use theory 1832 Event Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31) 1831 Birthday James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory 1818 Death Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 1815 Birthday Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions 1811 Birthday Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G 1810 Birthday Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory 1788 Birthday Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist 1766 Birthday John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter 1719 Death Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 1600 Death Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake 1540 Death Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 1517 Death John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 1492 Birthday Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory, humanist and reformer
