Anniversaries

22
May

May 22, 1948 - Death of Carlo Perrier, co-discoverer of technetium

24
May

May 24, 2019 – Death of Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize who coined the term quark and classified elementary particles

24
May

May 24, 1686 - Birth of Daniel Fahrenheit, designed the famous scale and invented the mercury thermometer

25
May

May 25, 1921 - Birth of Jack Steinberger, discoverer of the muon neutrino

25
May

May 25, 1865 - Birth of Pieter Zeeman, Nobel Prize for his studies on the influence of magnetism on radiation

27
May

May 27, 1897 – Birth of John Douglas Cockroft, Nobel Prize for achieving the disintegration of the atomic nucleus

27
May

May 27, 1950 - Death of John Torrence Tate, leading researcher in quantum mechanics and experimental physics

29
May

May 29, 1919 - Einstein's Theory of Relativity is confirmed

29
May

May 29, 1829 - Death of Humphry Davy, famous British chemist considered one of the fathers of electrochemistry

30
May

May 30, 1964 – Death of Leó Szilárd, the man of great ideas in nuclear physics, engineering and molecular biology

31
May

May 31, 2006 - Death of Raymond Davis Jr., the first to detect neutrinos from the Sun

31
May

May 31, 1931 - Birth of John Robert Scherieffer, propused his theory of superconnectivity

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