Month → July

23
Jul

Jul 23, 1916 - Death of William Ramsay, discovers the 6 noble gases of the periodic table

24
Jul

24 July 1974 - Death of James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron

25
Jul

July 25, 2008 – Death of Tracy Hall, the first person to manufacture synthetic diamonds for the first time at General Electric Research Laboratories

25
Jul

July 25, 1920 - Birth of Rosalind Franklin "the woman who X-rayed life"

26
Jul

26 July 2003 - Death of Hilde Levi, pioneer in the use of radiocarbon dating and autoradiographic techniques

27
Jul

July 27, 1844 – Death of John Dalton, naturalist, chemist, mathematician, meteorologist, and father of modern atomic theory

28
Jul

July 28, 1968 – Death of Otto Hahn, discoverer of uranium and thorium nuclear fission

28
Jul

July 28, 1904 – Birth of Pavel Cherenkov, mathematician and physicist who discovered the radiation that bears his name

29
Jul

July 29, 1898 – Birth of Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner who laid the foundations for lasers, masers, atomic clocks, and magnetic resonance

29
Jul

July 29, 1957 - Creation of the IAEA

29
Jul

July 29, 1994 - Death of Dorothy Hodgkin, who made enormous advances in crystallography and X-ray diffraction

30
Jul

30 July 2006 - Death of Mario Báncora, who led the construction of the first South American cyclotron