Anniversaries

12
Nov

November 12, 1842 – Birth of Lord Rayleigh, Nobel Prize for discovering argon and the densities of atmospheric gases

18
Nov

November 18, 1897 - Birth of Patrick Blackett, known for his work on the cloud chamber and cosmic rays

18
Nov

November 18, 1962 - Death of Niels Bohr, contributed to the understanding of the atom and quantum mechanics

20
Nov

November 20, 1945 - Death of Francis Aston, inventor of the mass spectrometer and discoverer of isotopes

20
Nov

November 20, 2018 - Death of Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize used X-ray diffraction to decipher protein complexes in nucleic acid

21
Nov

November 21, 1905 - Albert Einstein unveils his famous formula

23
Nov

November 23, 1887 – Birth of Henry Moseley, quantitatively justified the concept of atomic number

23
Nov

November 23, 1997 – Death of Lucy Pickett, chemist renowned for her research on organic molecules by X-ray crystallography and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy

28
Nov

November 28, 1954 – Death of Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction

29
Nov

November 29, 1981 - Birth of Isabel Knaggs, contributed to the development of X-ray crystallography

30
Nov

November 30, 1845 - Death of Nils Sefström, discoverer of the chemical element vanadium or not?

01
Dec

December 1, 1743 - Birth of Martin Klaproth, discoverer of uranium, zirconium, titanium, tellurium, strontium, cerium and chromium

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