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						1 February February 1. February 2026 2003 The American space shuttle Columbia breaks on its return 60 km above Texas. All 7 crew members die. Born 1805: Samuel Earnshaw, British clergyman, physicist and mathematician 1905: Emilio Segrè, US-American physicist Deceased 1650:René Descartes,French scientist and philosopher 1971: Hans Beyer, German chemist 1976: 'Werner Karl Heisenberg died in Munich. In 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the hydrogen spectrum. The uncertainty relation named after him is also one of his many respectable achievements. 1998: Marga Faulstich, German glass chemist 2009: Franz Xaver Eder, German physicist See more details •
2 February 2 February 2 2. February 2026 Born in 1552: Ernst Hettenbach, German physicist and physician 1648: Samuel Strimesius, German physicist and Reformed theologian 1767: Heinrich Friedrich Link, German natural scientist 1786: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician 1845: Johann Puluj, Ukrainian physicist 1860: August Gutzmer, German mathematician 1892: Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer and geophysicist 1893: Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist 1917: Herman Feshbach, US-American physicist Deceased 1907:Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and co-discoverer of the Periodic Table of the Elements, in St. Petersburg 1974: Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, physicist and science theorist 2006:Perre Potier, French chemist and drug researcher See more details •	3 February 3 February 3 3. February 2026 1966: The Soviet space probe Luna 9 succeeds in the first soft landing of a probe on the moon (in the sea of storms). Born in 1702: Michael Adelbulner, German mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1890: Paul Scherrer, Swiss physicist 1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Russian mathematician 1910: Rupert Viktor Oppenauer, Austrian chemist Deceased 1919: Edward Charles Pickering, US astronomer and physicist 1925: Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician and physicist 1929: Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician 1968: Carl Krauch, German chemist and large-scale industrialist 1975: William David Coolidge, US-American physicist 1980: Walter E. Richartz, German chemist and writer See more details •	4 February 4 February 4 4. February 2026 1975: An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale in the People's Republic of China claimed around 10,000 lives. 1976: More than 23,000 people die in an earthquake in Guatemala with hundreds of earth tremors. Born in 1627: Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and natural scientist 1776: Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, German physician and natural scientist 1875: Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist 1896: Friedrich Hund, German physicist 1902: Charles Lindbergh, US Pilot 1906: Clyde Tombaugh, US-American astronomer 1927: Rolf Landauer, German-US-American physicist and information scientist Deceased 1889: Carl Leverkus, chemical entrepreneur 1925: Oliver Heaviside,English physicist 1928: Fritz Raschig, German industrialist, chemist and politician 1974: Satyendranath Bose, Indian physicist See more details •	5 February 5 February 5 5. February 2026 1783: A series of earthquakes begins that strikes Messina and especially parts of Calabria. By 28 March, 300 villages are destroyed and some 30,000 people lose their lives. 1980: Klaus von Klitzing discovers the so-called quantum Hall effect in the high-field magnetic laboratory in Grenoble. Born in 1608:Caspar Schott, German scientist, in Königshofen 1840: John Boyd Dunlop, Irish-British inventor 1840: Hiram Maxim, US-American-British inventor 1882: August Kopff, German astronomer, discoverer of asteroids Deceased 1790: William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist See more details •	6 February 6 February 6 6. February 2026 1886: During the investigation of Argyrodit Clemens Winkler discovered the Eka silicon, better known as germanium, predicted by Mendeleev. Born 1566: Georg Wecker, German physician and physicist 1802: Charles Wheatstone, British physicist 1861: Nikolai Dmitryevich Selinsky, Russian chemist 1865: Andrew Crommelin, British astronomer 1879: Carl Ramsauer, German physicist 1930: Jun Kondo, Japanese physicist 1941: Klaus Buchner, German physicist and politician 1960: Markus Antonietti, German chemist Deceased 1804:Joseph Priestley, English chemist 2002:'Max Ferdinand Perutz, Austrian-English chemist, in Cambridge. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with John Cowdery Kendrew. In 1960 Kendrew and Perutz were the first to clarify the three-dimensional structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. See more details •	7 February 7 February 7 7. February 2026 1785: The German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the antenna galaxies in the constellation Rabe. Born 120: Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer and astrologer 1824: William Huggins, British astronomer 1889: Harry Nyquist, US-American physicist 1905: Ulf Svante von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish neurochemist and physiologist, born in Stockholm. Among other things, he discovered prostaglandin and noradrenalin. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. 1940: Toshihide Masukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner Deceased 1897: Galileo Ferraris, Italian engineer and physicist 1960: Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov, Russian nuclear physicist See more details •	8 February 8 February 8 8. February 2026 1969: The so-called Allende meteorite bursts over the Mexican state of Chihuahua. One of the many falling debris parts just misses the post office in Pueblito de Allende... Born 1777: Bernard Courtois, French chemist and discoverer of iodine. 1795: Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, German chemist, in Hamburg-Billwärder. One of his most important works was the identification of many organic components of coal tar. 1834: Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and co-discoverer of the Periodic Table of the Elements, in Tobolsk. Died 1928: Theodor Curtius, German chemist 1946: Felix Hoffmann died in Switzerland. His achievements include the development of Aspirin. Shortly after the synthesis of aspirin, he also succeeded in synthesizing heroin. 1974: Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer 1975: Robert Robinson, British chemist 1975: Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize winner, died in Great Missenden. He received his Nobel Prize in 1947 for the investigation of natural substances, in particular alkaloids. See more details •
9 February 9 February 9 9. February 2026 1996: Researchers of the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt announce the discovery of the copernicium. Born in 1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician 1781: Johann Baptist von Spix, German natural scientist 1893: Johann Wolfgang Amschler, German biologist 1925: Burkhard Heim, German physicist 1954: Ulrich Walter, German physicist and astronaut 1963: Brian Greene, US-American physicist Deceased 1811:Nevil Maskelyne, Royal Astronomer 1914: Niklaus Gerber, Swiss chemist and inventor 1944: Wera Tubandt, German chemist See more details •	10 February 10 February 10 10. February 2026 Born in 1747: Yasuaki Aida, Japanese mathematician 1770: Alexandre Brongniart, French chemist and mineralogist, geologist and zoologist 1785:Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier, French mathematician and pioneer of fluid dynamics 1943: Harald Fritzsch, German physicist 1944: Kurt Binder, Austrian physicist Deceased 1865: Emil Lenz, German-Baltic physicist 1868: David Brewster, British physicist, inventor of the kaleidoscope 1891: Sofja Kowalewskaja, Russian mathematician 1901: 'Max Josef von Pettenkofer, German chemist, in Munich. His merits lie mainly in the field of hygiene.' 1923: Conrad Wilhelm Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, in Munich. 1942: 'Lawrence Joseph Henderson. American chemist and biologist, in Cambridge. He did research in the field of buffer systems (Hasselbach-Henderson equation). 1948: Egon Schweidler, Austrian physicist See more details •	11 February 11 February 11 11. February 2026 Born in 1800:'William Henry Fox Talbot in Melbury. He is considered the inventor of negative-positive photography. 1839: Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist 1847:Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, in Milan (Ohio) 1861: Paul Prüssing, German chemist 1892: Ernst Schmidt, German thermodynamicist 1898: Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-German-US-American physicist and molecular biologist Deceased 1799:Lazaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist and chemist 1911: Emil Jacobsen, German chemist and writer 1934: Fritz Klatte, German chemist 1973: J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist 1981: Franz Sondheimer, German chemist See more details •	12 February 12 February 12 12. February 2026 1855: Michigan State University is founded in East Lansing. Born in 1665: Rudolf Jacob Camerer, German botanist and physician 1685: George Hadley, British Lawyer, Amateur Physicist and Meteorologist 1785:'Pierre Louis Dulong, French chemist and physicist, in Rouen. Dulong-Petit's law (specific heat capacity) is named after him. 1788: Carl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach born in Stuttgart. He was a versatile scholar and industrialist who covered paraffin and creosote rnit among other things. 1809:Charles Darwin, English scientist 1918: Julian Schwinger, US-American physicist Deceased 1941:Oskar Dressel, German dyestuff chemist, in Bonn 2011: Hans Bucka, German physicist and university professor See more details •	13 February 13 February 13 13. February 2026 1419: The University of Rostock is founded by the Dukes Johann IV and Albrecht V of Mecklenburg and the Council of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. 1880: Thomas Alva Edison first observes the thermal emission of electrons from a heated cathode, later known as the Edison-Richardson effect. 1918: An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in Guangdong Province, Republic of China, kills about 10,000 people. Born in 1672: Étienne François Geoffroy (the elder), chemist and physician 1743: Joseph Banks, British naturalist 1805: Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician 1834: Heinrich Caro, German chemist 1845: Wilhelm Oswald Lohse, German astronomer 1910:William Bradford Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and inventor of the transistor, in London. 1934: Alexander Kaul, German biophysicist Deceased 1837: Edward Turner, British chemist 1913: Louis Aronstein, German physicist and chemist 1939: Søren Sørensen, Danish chemist 1957: Gustav Mie, German physicist 1990: Heinz Haber, German physicist, astronomer and television author See more details •	14 February 14 February 14 14. February 2026 1747: The world's first engineering school, the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, is founded in Paris. Born in 1862: Agnes Pockels, German chemist and physicist (autodidact), in Venice. 1877: Edmund Landau, German mathematician 1898: Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer 1917: Herbert Aaron Hauptman, American mathematician and biophysicist, in New York City. In 1985 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for methods of crystal structure analysis. Deceased 1744: John Hadley, British astronomer and mathematician 1975: Julian Huxley, English biologist and philosopher See more details •	15 February 15 February 15 15. February 2026 1786: The astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula in the constellation dragon. Born 1564: Galileo Galilei in Pisa. 1826: George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist. 1858: William Henry Pickering, American astronomer 1873: Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize winner (sugar fermentation), in Augsburg. 1953: Friedrich Sauvigny, German mathematician Deceased 1736: Stephen Gray, British natural scientist 1847: Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician 1943: Georg Popp, German chemist, university lecturer and criminalist 1944: Arthur Wehnelt, German physicist 1959: Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1975: Hans Kienle, German astronomer and astrophysicist 2007: Robert Adler, US-American physicist, electronics engineer and inventor See more details •
16 February 16 February 16 16. February 2026 Born in 1497: Philipp Melanchthon, German reformer, theologian, philologist, philosopher, humanist, textbook author and poet 1514: Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian mathematician and astronomer 1791: Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet, French physicist 1827: Carl Bernhard Wilhelm Scheibler, German chemist 1902: Hans Andersag, German chemist Deceased 1892:Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer 2006:Erich Hückel, German chemist and physicist, in Marburg. Among other things, he established the Hückel rule named after him to define the aromatic state. See more details •	17 February 17 February 17 17. February 2026 1164: During the Julianenflut, the first storm surge on the German North Sea coast, a preliminary stage of the Jade Bay is formed, there are 20,000 dead. Born in 1723: Tobias Mayer, German cartographer, geographer, mathematician and astronomer 1838: Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, German-Russian chemist 1888:Otto Stern, German physicist, born in Sohrau. Together with W. Gerlach, he carries out the Stern-Gerlach experiment, named after you, to prove the quantization of direction. In 1943 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Died 1867: Alexander Dallas Bache, US-American physicist 1887: Leopold von Pebal, Austrian chemist 1907: Wilhelm von Bezold, German physicist and meteorologist See more details •	18 February 18 February 18 18. February 2026 1804: The university, later renamed Ohio University, is founded as American Western University. 1930:US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the (dwarf) planet Pluto. Born in 1745:Alessandro Volta (actually Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Count of Volta), Italian physicist, in Como. He is regarded as the inventor of the battery. 1838:Ernst Mach, German-Austrian physicist, in Turany near Brno. Died 1899: Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician 1900: Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician 1967:Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist and father of the atomic bomb See more details •	19 February 19 February 19 19. February 2026 1878:US inventor Thomas Edison patents the phonograph Born in 1473:Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, in Torun 1799:Ferdinand Reich, German chemist and physicist, in Bernburg. 1859:Svante August Arrhenius, Swedish physicochemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, in Uppsala. 1889: Ernest Marsden, English physicist 1936: Jürgen Voß, German chemist 1941: David Gross, US-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1943: Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner 1956: Roderick MacKinnon, US biochemist and physician, Nobel laureate in chemistry. He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on ion channel proteins. Died 1916: Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist 1963: Gustav Peter Bucky, German radiologist, physicist, scientist and inventor See more details •	20 February 20 February 20 20. February 2026 Born in 1759: Johann Christian Reil, Hallescher Stadtphysikus and one of the famous sons of Halle/Saale, in Rhaude. He "invented" the term psychiatry (later psychiatry) and earned merits in the field of psychotherapy. 1844: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist 1937: Robert Huber, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1988), in Munich. He received the Nobel Prize for his research into the three-dimensional structure of the reaction centre of photosynthesis in a purple bacterium. Died 1762: Tobias Mayer, German cartographer, geographer, mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1778: Laura Bassi, Italian philosopher, first professor of physics in Europe 1841: Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, German pharmacist and discoverer of morphine 1892: Hermann Kopp, German chemist and chemical historian 1907: Henry Moissan, French chemist and Nobel Prize winner, in Paris. He succeeded in isolating monosilane. In addition, he rendered outstanding services to the isolation of fluorine. 1913: Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist 1939: August Leonhard Bernoulli, Swiss physicist 1941: Arthur Erich Haas, Austrian physicist 1951: Lorenz Ludwig Maximilian Ernst von Angerer, German physicist 1956: Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist See more details •	21 February 21 February 21 21. February 2026 1858: An earthquake destroys the Greek city of Corinth. It is then rebuilt six kilometres away. Born in 1791: John Mercer, British chemist, in Great Harwood. He invented mercerisation, a process for textile finishing. 1895: Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish physiologist and biochemist, in Copenhagen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1943 for his discovery of vitamin K. 1904: Charles Frederick Goodeve, Canadian chemist 1915: Yevgeny Mikhailovich Lifschitz, Soviet physicist Deceased 1854: Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe, German mathematician and physicist 1912: Osborne Reynolds, British physicist 1926: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist 1938: George Ellery Hale, US Astronomer 1968: Howard Walter Florey, Australian Patologist, Discoverer of Penicillin 1980: Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician See more details •	22 February 22 February 22 22. February 2026 1946: Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announces the discovery of streptomycin, an antibiotic. Born in 1785: Jean Peltier, French physicist, in Ham. He studied thermoelectricity and discovered the Peltier effect named after him. 1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist and discoverer of electromagnetic radiation, in Hamburg. 1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist, in Varde. He developed an acid-base theory! 1902:Fritz Straßmann, German chemist, in Boppard. He is a co-discoverer of artificial nuclear fission. Died 1875: Charles Lyell, English geologist 1901: George Francis FitzGerald, Irish physicist 1976: Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher See more details •
23 February 23 February 23 23. February 2026 1886: Charles Martin Hall succeeds in a production process for aluminium after several years of experimentation. 1941: The physicist Glenn T. Seaborg bombards uranium 238U with deuterium in a cyclotron to produce the radioactive element plutonium for the first time. Born 1884:Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist, in Warsaw. He coined the term vitamins. Died 1855:Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist, in Göttingen. 1944:Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and inventor of bakelite, in New York. 1979: Werner Oswald, Swiss chemist and entrepreneur. See more details •	24 February 24 February 24 24. February 2026 1582: Pope Gregory XIII introduces the Gregorian calendar 1896: The French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel presents his findings on the radioactive radiation of uranium to the Académie des sciences. Born in 1705: Hieronymus David Gaub, German physician and chemist 1841:Carl Graebe, German chemist, in Frankfurt am Main. Died 1810: Henry Cavendish, English physicist See more details •	25 February 25 February 25 25. February 2026 1836: Samuel Colt receives a patent for his invention of the drum revolver. 1837: Thomas Davenport receives the world's first patent on an electric motor. Born 1896: Ida Noddack-Tacke, German chemist 1903: Gerhard Schrader, German chemist. He worked with phosphoric acid esters, synthesizing insecticides as well as chemical warfare agents. Died 1947: Friedrich Paschen, German physicist 1999: Glenn T. Seaborg, US-American chemist and nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner See more details •	26 February 26 February 26 26. February 2026 1531: An earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, kills 20,000 people Born in 1786: François Arago, French physicist 1807: Théophile-Jules Pelouze, French chemist 1878: Gustav Heinrich Angenheister, German geophysicist 1903:Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and discoverer of the stereochemical polymerization of olefins and ethine compounds, in Imperia. In 1963 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with Karl Ziegler. 1946: Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist and Nobel Prize winner (femtochemistry), in Damanhur. Died 1879: Franz Leopold Sonnenschein, German chemist 1903: Richard Gatling, US inventor (Gatling gun) 1920: Carl Alexander von Martius, German chemist 1931: Otto Wallach, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner, in Göttingen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1910 for his work on organic chemistry. 1933: Felix Auerbach, German physicist 1971: Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, in Kopparberg. In 1926 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on disperse systems. 2001: Georg Brauer, German chemist See more details •	27 February 27 February 27 27. February 2026 1477: With a papal bull Pope Sixtus IV approves the establishment of a university in Uppsala, Sweden. It is the oldest still existing university in Scandinavia. 1879: The US chemists Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg report the discovery of saccharin. 1932: The journal Nature publishes an article by James Chadwick describing the existence of the neutron. Born in 1947: Alan Guth, US-American physicist Deceased 1887:Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist 1968: Hertha Sponer, German physicist See more details •	28 February 28 February 28 28. February 2026 1928: The Indian physicist C. V. Raman experimentally detects a certain scattering of light, the Raman scattering named after the discoverer. This discovery and his work on the diffusion of light were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. 1953: The English biochemists James Watson and Francis Crick unravel the structure of the hereditary substance deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) on the basis of data from X-ray structural analysis by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Born 1683: René Antoine de Réaumur, French scientist and developer of the thermometer scale of the same name 1838: Maurice Lévy, French mathematician, physicist and engineer 1901: Linus Carl Pauling, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Peace, in Portland. 1925: Richard Henry Dalitz, Australian physicist. 1939: Daniel Chee Tsui, Chinese-US-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1942: Martin Aigner, Austrian mathematician 1948: Steven Chu, US-American physicist Deceased 28:2:1911:Emil Jacobsen, German chemist and writer, in Berlin. 2013: Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner See more details •

NMR Periodic Table of Elements

IIIb

IVb

VIb

VIIb

VIIIb

IIb

III

VII

VIII

^Ir

Uut

Uup

Uus

Uuo

^*Lanthanides

^**Actinides

Sources:
IUPAC Pure and Applied Chemistry 73, 1795–1818
Bruker Almanac 2012

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