Month → January

01
Jan

January 1, 1817 - Death of Martin Klaproth, discoverer of uranium, zirconium, titanium, tellurium, strontium, cerium and chromium

02
Jan

January 2, 1920: Birth of Isaac Asimov

04
Jan

January 4, 1961 - Death of Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize developed an atomic model, an equation named after him, and the famous cat mental experiment

05
Jan

January 5, 1970 – Death of Max Born, Nobel Prize winner for his work in quantum mechanics

05
Jan

January 5, 1970 - Death of Max Born, the man Einstein turned to whenever he had doubts about quantum mechanics

06
Jan

January 6, 1990 - Death of Pavel Cherenkov, discoverer of the radiation that bears his name

07
Jan

January 7, 1943 - Death of Nikola Tesla, father of electricity

07
Jan

January 7, 1939 - Marguerite Perey observes an anomalous radiation in actinium which she attributes to a new chemical element

07
Jan

January 7, 1834 – Birth of Johann Philipp Reis, scientist, autodidact, teacher and inventor of the ‘telephone’?

11
Jan

January 11, 1988 – Death of Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner who laid the foundations for the laser, maser, atomic clock or magnetic resonance

11
Jan

January 11, 2023 - Death of Vera Yurásova, researched the interactions of atomic particles with solids

12
Jan

January 12, 1716 – Birth of Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giralt, discoverer of platinum

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