Anniversaries

18
Jun

June 18, 1932- Birth of Dudley Robert Herschbach, inventor of an apparatus that allowed the collision of atoms and molecules

19
Jun

June 19, 1896 - Birth of Sonia Cotelle, who determined the half-life of thorium-230 and established the atomic number of polonium

20
Jun

June 20, 1912 – Birth of Markus Fierz, proved the Spin Statistical Theorem

23
Jun

June 23, 1915 - Birth of Jane Hamilton, supervisor of the construction and commissioning of the "Clementine" nuclear reactor

24
Jun

June 24, 1883 - Birth of Victor Franz Hess, Nobel Prize for his studies on cosmic rays

25
Jun

June 25, 1995 - Death of Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize for the transmutation of atomic nuclei

28
Jun

June 28, 1906 - Birth of Maria Goeppert-Mayer, the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics

30
Jun

June 30, 1919 – Death of Lord Rayleigh, Nobel Prize for discovering argon and the densities of atmospheric gases

01
Jul

July 1, 1942 - Birth of Julia Higgins, a specialist in polymer science

01
Jul

July 1, 1881 - Death of Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, considered one of the great chemists of the 19th century

02
Jul

July 2, 1876 - Birth of Harriet Brooks, known for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity

03
Jul

July 3, 1887 - Birth of Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen, known for her contributions to the theory of magnetism

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