Anniversaries

25
Oct

October 25, 1926 – Death of Antonius van den Broek, who established the direct correlation between the charge of the atomic nucleus and the periodic table

26
Oct

October 26, 1861 – Johann Philipp Reis presents the telephone he had invented

29
Oct

October 29, 1960 - Birth of Fabiola Gianotti, the first woman to be appointed CERN's Director General

30
Oct

October 30, 1975 – Death of Gustav Hertz, Nobel Prize winner for his research on the passage of electrons through a gas

31
Oct

October 31, 1794 - John Dalton presented his study on the disease that is now associated with his name, Daltonism

01
Nov

November 1, 1958 – The first edition of the IUPAC Red Book is published

02
Nov

November 2, 1932 - Birth of Melvin Schwartz who shared the Nobel Prize for his studies on neutrinos

04
Nov

November 4, 2011 – Death of Norman Foster Ramsey, his research led to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance and the atomic clock

05
Nov

November 5, 1970 - Death of Margaret Foster, the first woman chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey

06
Nov

November 6, 1822 – Death of Claude Louis Berthollet, his system of chemical nomenclature is the basis of the current system of naming chemical compounds

07
Nov

November 7, 1867 - Birth of Marie Curie, coined the term radioactivity and isolated the chemical elements radium and polonium

08
Nov

November 8, 1895 - Discovery of X-Rays

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