Anniversaries

08
Oct

October 8, 1850 – Birth of Henry Le Châtelier, famous in chemistry for the principle that bears his name

09
Oct

October 9, 1879 – Birth of Max Von Laue, Nobel Prize for his discoveries on X-ray diffraction

09
Oct

October 9, 1898 – Birth of Éliane Montel, one of the brilliant scientists who did research at the Curie laboratory of the Institut du Radium

10
Oct

October 10, 1896 - Birth of Lester Germer, he and Clinton Davisson demonstrate the wave nature of the electron

11
Oct

October 11, 1996 - Death of Rolf Widerøe, physicist who developed the radio wave tube

11
Oct

October 11, 1889 - Death of James Prescott Joule, a law and a unit of measurement are named after him

12
Oct

October 12, 1825 - Death of Franz-Joseph Müller, discoverer of tellurium

13
Oct

October 13, 2003 - Death of Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the development of neutron scattering techniques

14
Oct

October 14, 1914 - Birth of Raymond Davis Jr., the first to detect neutrinos from the Sun

17
Oct

October 17, 1887 - Death of Gustav Kirchhoff, investigated the emission of black body radiation and co-discovered caesium and rubidium

17
Oct

October 17, 1933 - Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany

18
Oct

October 18, 1931 – Death of Thomas Alva Edison, an inventor with 1,093 patents who knew how to modify the customs and habits of his time

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