Month → July

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July 1, 1942 - Birth of Julia Higgins, a specialist in polymer science

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July 1, 1881 - Death of Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, considered one of the great chemists of the 19th century

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Jul

July 2, 1876 - Birth of Harriet Brooks, known for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity

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Jul

July 3, 1887 - Birth of Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen, known for her contributions to the theory of magnetism

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Jul

July 4, 1934 - Death of Marie Curie, coined the term radioactivity and isolated the chemical elements radium and polonium

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Jul

July 5, 1795 – Death of Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giralt, discoverer of platinum

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Jul

July 5, 1826 – Death of Joseph Louis Proust, one of the founders of modern chemistry

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Jul

July 6, 1854 – Death of Georg Simon Ohm, the law bearing his name representing the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis

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Jul

July 7, 1886 - Birth of Carlo Perrier, co-discoverer of technetium

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Jul

July 8, 1979 - Death of Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Nobel Laureate for his work in quantum electrodynamics

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Jul

July 9, 1856 – Death of Amedeo Avogadro, physicist and chemist who formulated the famous Avogadro's Law

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Jul

July 9, 1886 - Charles Martin Hall files a patent for his method to economise aluminium production

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