Anniversaries

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

19
Oct

October 19, 1909 – Birth of Marguerite Perey, discoverer of francium and first woman elected academician at the Académie des Sciences

19
Oct

October 19, 1937 - Death of Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize considered one of the fathers of atomic physics

20
Oct

October 20, 1919 – Birth of Tracy Hall, the first person to manufacture synthetic diamonds

20
Oct

October 20, 1728 – All of Ole Rømer's manuscripts are lost in a fire at the Copenhagen observatory

20
Oct

October 20, 1891 - Birth of James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron

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