Month → October

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Oct

1 October 1922 - Birth of Chen Ning Yang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theories on parity violation in weak interactions

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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

3 October 2018 - Father of the 'god particle', Leon Max Lederman, dies

04
Oct

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

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Oct

5 October 1899 - Birth of Elda Emma Anderson, prominent health physicist

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Oct

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

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Oct

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

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Oct

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

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Oct

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

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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

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Oct

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

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Oct

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

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