Month → December

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

28
Dec

December 28, 1873 - Birth of William Draper Harkins, first to predict the existence of the neutron and to propose the basic principle of nuclear fusion

31
Dec

December 31, 1879 - New York Herald reports on Thomas Alva Edison's breakthrough discovery

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