Anniversaries

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Jul

July 14, 1950 - Death of Catherine Chamié, measured the half-life of radon for the first time

15
Jul

July 15, 1915 - Birth of Albert Ghiorso, co-discoverer of twelve elements of the periodic table

15
Jul

July 15, 1943 - Birth of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discovered pulsars

15
Jul

July 15, 1922 - Birth of Leon Max Lederman, Nobel Prize for his research on neutrinos

16
Jul

July 16, 1994 - Death of Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize in Physics and teacher of four other Nobel Prizes

17
Jul

July 17, 1819 - Birth of Eunice Newton Foote, pioneer in research into the greenhouse effect

18
Jul

July 18, 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his second study of Brownian motion

19
Jul

July 19, 1838 - Death of Pierre Louis Dulong who found the relationship between the specific heat of an element and its atomic weight

20
Jul

July 20, 1937 - Death of Guillaume Marconi, father of radiotelegraphy

20
Jul

July 20, 2007 - Death of Kai Siegbahn, Nobel Prize for his contributions to the development of high-resolution laser spectroscopy

20
Jul

July 20, 1911 - Antonius van den Broek publishes the direct correlation between the charge of the atomic nucleus and the periodic table

21
Jul

July 21, 1620 – Birth of Jean Picard, the first to give an exact measurement of the radius of the Earth

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