Month → May

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May

May 3, 1933 - Birth of Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979

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May

May 3, 1892 - George Paget Thomson was born, Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the diffraction of electrons in crystals and the demonstration of their wave properties

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May

May 4, 1870 – Birth of Antonius van den Broek, the physicist who established the direct correlation between the charge of the atomic nucleus and the periodic table

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May

May 10, 1860 - Cesium is discovered

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May

May 11, 1916 - Albert Einstein presents his General Theory of Relativity

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May

May 11, 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, "the curious physicist who became an icon of science"

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May

May 13, 1975 – Death of Marguerite Perey, discoverer of francium and first woman elected academician at the Académie des Sciences

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May

May 15, 1859 - Birth of French scientist Pierre Curie

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May

May 18, 1817 – Birth of János Irinyi, inventor of matches

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May

May 20, 1900 - Birth of Erika Cremer, tireless in her research on gas chromatography

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May

May 22, 1895 - Death of Isaac Peral, Spanish engineer and sailor

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May

May 24, 2019 – Death of Murray Gell-Mann, coiner of the term quark

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