Anniversaries

10
Aug

August 10, 1915 – Death of Henry Moseley, quantitatively justified the concept of atomic number

11
Aug

August 11, 1926 - Birth of Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize used X-ray diffraction to decipher protein complexes in nucleic acid

12
Aug

August 12, 1887 - Birth of Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize developed an atomic model, an equation named after him, and the famous cat mental experiment

14
Aug

August 14, 1958 – Death of Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the synthesis of new radioactive elements

14
Aug

August 14, 1958 - Death of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, co-discoverer of artificially induced radioactivity

15
Aug

August 15, 1994 - The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) achieves the record for sub-zero temperatures

15
Aug

August 15, 1892 - Birth of Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize for his discovery of the wave nature of the electron

16
Aug

August 16, 1899 - Death of Robert Bunsen, co-discoverer of caesium and rubidium

17
Aug

August 17, 1848 – Death of Jöns Jacob Berzelius, without his contribution modern chemistry would not be the same

18
Aug

August 18, 1835 - Death of Friedrich Stromeyer, discoverer of the chemical element cadmium

19
Aug

August 19, 1839 – Louis Daguerre presents the daguerreotype

20
Aug

August 20, 1779 – Birth of Jöns Jacob Berzelius, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry

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