Anniversaries

29
Jul

July 29, 1994 - Death of Dorothy Hodgkin, who made enormous advances in crystallography and X-ray diffraction

30
Jul

July 30, 2006 - Death of Mario Báncora, who led the construction of the first South American cyclotron

31
Jul

July 31, 1800 - Birth of Friedrich Wöhler, the first to isolate beryllium and aluminum metal

01
Aug

August 1, 1774 - Polymath Joseph Priestley discovers "dephlogisticated air"

01
Aug

August 1, 1924 - Birth of Georges Charpak, Nobel Prize for inventing and developing particle detectors

02
Aug

August 2, 1893 - Birth of Isabel Knaggs, contributed to the development of X-ray crystallography

02
Aug

August 2, 1776 - Birth of Friedrich Stromeyer, discoverer of the chemical element cadmium

03
Aug

August 3, 1958 - The "Nautilus" is the first submarine to pass under the North Pole

04
Aug

August 4, 1928 - Birth of Vera Yurásova, researched the interactions of atomic particles with solids

05
Aug

August 5, 1952 – Death of Sameera Moussa: “My wish is that nuclear cancer treatment is as affordable and cheap as aspirin”

05
Aug

August 5, 1862 - Birth of Lucy Everest Boole, the first female professor of the London School of Medicine for Women and the first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

06
Aug

August 6, 1766 - Birth of William Hyde Wollaston, discoverer of palladium and rhodium

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