Anniversaries

17
Dec

December 17, 1908 - Birth of Willard Frank Libby, Nobel Prize for carbon-14 dating

17
Dec

December 17, 1895 - Death of János Irinyi, inventor of silent and non-explosive matches

18
Dec

December 18, 1856 – Birth of Joseph J. Thomson, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron

19
Dec

December 19, 1938 - Nuclear fission was discovered

19
Dec

December 19, 1875 - Birth of Mileva Marić Ruzić, debate still rages over her contribution to Einstein's discoveries

20
Dec

December 20, 1901 - Birth of Robert Van de Graaff, whose electrostatic generator made many curious about science

22
Dec

December 22, 1828- Death of William Hyde Wollaston, discoverer of palladium and rhodium

23
Dec

December 23, 1907 - Death of Pierre Janssen, discoverer of the chemical element helium

24
Dec

December 24, 1818 - Birth of James Prescott Joule, a law and a unit of measurement are named after him

26
Dec

December 26, 1930 – Death of Eugen Goldstein, discoverer of the channel beams that led to the discovery of the isotopes

26
Dec

December 26, 2010 - Death of Albert Ghiorso, co-discoverer of twelve elements of the periodic table

27
Dec

December 27, 1914 - Death of Charles Martin Hall, developed a method to economise the production of aluminium