Month → October

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, The father of the "god particle"

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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

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

October 14, 1914 - Birth of Raymond Davis Jr., the first to detect neutrinos from the Sun

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Oct

October 17, 1887 – Death of Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist who investigated electrical circuits, plate theory, chemistry, optics, spectroscopy, and the emission of blackbody radiation

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Oct

October 17, 1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany

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Oct

October 18, 1931 – Death of Thomas Alva Edison, a prolific inventor with 1,093 patents who knew how to modify the customs and habits of his time

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Oct

October 19, 1909 – Birth of Marguerite Perey, discoverer of francium and first woman elected academician at the Académie des Sciences

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Oct

October 19, 1937 - Death of Ernest Rutherford, considered one of the fathers of nuclear physics

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