Month → July

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Jul

July 10, 1856 - Birth of Nikola Tesla, father of electricity

11
Jul

July 11, 1924 - Birth of César Lattes, co-discoverer of the meson pi o pion

12
Jul

July 12, 1682 – Death of Jean Picard, the first to give an exact measurement of the Earth's radius

13
Jul

July 13, 1974 - Death of Patrick Blackett, known for his work on the cloud chamber and cosmic rays

14
Jul

July 14, 1811 - Amedeo Avogadro publishes the law that bears his name

14
Jul

July 14, 1950 - Death of Catherine Chamié, measured the half-life of radon for the first time

15
Jul

July 15, 1915 - Birth of Albert Ghiorso, co-discoverer of twelve elements of the periodic table

15
Jul

July 15, 1943 - Birth of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, discovered pulsars

15
Jul

July 15, 1922 - Birth of Leon Max Lederman, Nobel Prize for his research on neutrinos

16
Jul

July 16, 1994 - Death of Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize in Physics and teacher of four other Nobel Prizes

17
Jul

July 17, 1819 - Birth of Eunice Newton Foote, pioneer in research into the greenhouse effect

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Jul

July 18, 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his second study of Brownian motion

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