Month → October

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Oct

October 2, 1852 - Birth of William Ramsay, who discovered the 6 noble gases in the periodic table

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Oct

October 3, 2018 - Death of Leon Max Lederman, Nobel Prize for his research on neutrinos

04
Oct

October 4, 1938 - Birth of Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize for developing nuclear magnetic resonance methods

05
Oct

October 5, 1899 - Birth of Elda Emma Anderson, the first to prepare a sample of pure uranium-235 in the laboratory

06
Oct

October 6, 1903 - Birth of Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize for the transmutation of atomic nuclei

07
Oct

October 7, 1885 - Birth of Niels Bohr, contributed to the understanding of the atom and quantum mechanics

07
Oct

October 7, 1934 - Birth of Manuel Cardona Castro, world specialist in Solid State Physics

08
Oct

October 8, 1850 – Birth of Henry Le Châtelier, famous in chemistry for the principle that bears his name

09
Oct

October 9, 1879 – Birth of Max Von Laue, Nobel Prize for his discoveries on X-ray diffraction

09
Oct

October 9, 1898 – Birth of Éliane Montel, one of the brilliant scientists who did research at the Curie laboratory of the Institut du Radium

10
Oct

October 10, 1896 - Birth of Lester Germer, he and Clinton Davisson demonstrate the wave nature of the electron

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Oct

October 11, 1996 - Death of Rolf Widerøe, physicist who developed the radio wave tube

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