Anniversaries

04
Jul

July 4, 1934 - Death of Marie Curie, coined the term radioactivity and isolated the chemical elements radium and polonium

05
Jul

July 5, 1795 – Death of Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giralt, discoverer of platinum

05
Jul

July 5, 1826 – Death of Joseph Louis Proust, one of the founders of modern chemistry

06
Jul

July 6, 1854 – Death of Georg Simon Ohm, the law bearing his name representing the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis

07
Jul

July 7, 1886 - Birth of Carlo Perrier, co-discoverer of technetium

08
Jul

July 8, 1979 - Death of Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Nobel Laureate for his work in quantum electrodynamics

09
Jul

July 9, 1856 – Death of Amedeo Avogadro, physicist and chemist who formulated the famous Avogadro's Law

09
Jul

July 9, 1886 - Charles Martin Hall files a patent for his method to economise aluminium production

10
Jul

July 10, 1856 - Birth of Nikola Tesla, father of electricity

11
Jul

July 11, 1924 - Birth of César Lattes, co-discoverer of the meson pi o pion

12
Jul

July 12, 1682 – Death of Jean Picard, the first to give an exact measurement of the Earth's radius

13
Jul

July 13, 1974 - Death of Patrick Blackett, known for his work on the cloud chamber and cosmic rays

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