Month → July

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, discoverer of 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 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was created

29
Jul

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

30
Jul

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

31
Jul

July 31, 1800 - Birth of Friedrich Wöhler, the first to isolate beryllium and aluminum metal

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