Anniversaries

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

02
Dec

December 2, 1942 - The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is achieved

03
Dec

December 3, 1886 - Birth of Karl Manne Siegbahn, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the field of X-ray spectroscopy

04
Dec

December 4, 1979 – Death of Walter Müller, co-inventor of the famous Geiger-Müller radiation counter