Anniversaries

09
May

May 9, 1909 - Birth of Hilde Levi, a pioneer in the use of radiocarbon dating techniques and autoradiography

10
May

May 10, 1860 - Cesium is discovered

10
May

May 10, 1860 - Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discover caesium

11
May

May 11, 1916 - Albert Einstein presents his General Theory of Relativity

11
May

May 11, 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, "the curious physicist who became an icon of science"

11
May

May 11, 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize who was able to convey the complexity of theoretical physics in a simple way

13
May

May 13, 1975 – Death of Marguerite Perey, discoverer of francium and first woman elected academician at the Académie des Sciences

15
May

May 15, 1859 - Birth of Pierre Curie, shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactive elements

18
May

May 18, 1817 – Birth of János Irinyi, inventor of silent and non-explosive matches

20
May

May 20, 1900 - Birth of Erika Cremer, tireless in her research on gas chromatography

20
May

May 20, 1921 – The President of the United States presents Marie Curie with a gram of radium

22
May

May 22, 1895 - Death of Isaac Peral, inventor of the first electric-powered torpedo submarine

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