Anniversaries

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Jan

January 12, 1716 – Birth of Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giralt, discoverer of platinum

14
Jan

January 14, 1874 - Death of Johann Philipp Reis, scientist, autodidact, teacher and inventor of the ‘telephone’?

15
Jan

January 15, 1785 – Birth of William Prout, physicist and chemist whose discovery was one of the reasons Ernest Rutherford named the proton

16
Jan

January 16, 1967 - Death of Robert Van de Graaff, whose electrostatic generator made many curious about science

18
Jan

January 18, 1945 - Death of Sonia Cotelle, who determined the half-life of thorium-230 and established the atomic number of polonium

18
Jan

January 18, 1878 - Death of Antoine César Becquerel, discoverer of piezoelectricity

19
Jan

January 19, 1904 – Birth of Lucy Pickett, renowned for her research on organic molecules by X-ray crystallography and UV absorption spectroscopy

20
Jan

January 20, 1758 – Birth of Madame Lavoisier, the “mother of modern chemistry”

22
Jan

January 22, 1939 - The first nuclear fission experiment took place

24
Jan

January 24, 1904 – Birth of Berta Karlik, discoverer of the isotopes of astatine and its existence in nature

24
Jan

January 24, 1993 – Death of Éliane Montel, one of the brilliant scientists who did research at the Curie laboratory of the Institut du Radium

26
Jan

January 26: World Environmental Education Day

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