Month → May

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May

May 18, 1817 – Birth of János Irinyi, inventor of silent and non-explosive matches

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May

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

20
May

May 20, 1921 – The President of the United States presents Marie Curie with a gram of radium

22
May

May 22, 1895 - Death of Isaac Peral, inventor of the first electric-powered torpedo submarine

22
May

May 22, 1948 - Death of Carlo Perrier, co-discoverer of technetium

24
May

May 24, 2019 – Death of Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize who coined the term quark and classified elementary particles

24
May

May 24, 1686 - Birth of Daniel Fahrenheit, designed the famous scale and invented the mercury thermometer

25
May

May 25, 1921 - Birth of Jack Steinberger, discoverer of the muon neutrino

25
May

May 25, 1865 - Birth of Pieter Zeeman, Nobel Prize for his studies on the influence of magnetism on radiation

27
May

May 27, 1897 – Birth of John Douglas Cockroft, Nobel Prize for achieving the disintegration of the atomic nucleus

27
May

May 27, 1950 - Death of John Torrence Tate, leading researcher in quantum mechanics and experimental physics

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May

May 29, 1919 - Einstein's Theory of Relativity is confirmed