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January 1
January 1
1. January 2025
1801: The Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi is the first person to discover an asteroid - his name is Ceres.
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1857:Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn, Dutch chemist, in Leeuwarden
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1817:Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist, in Berlin
1894:Heinrich Hertz, German physicist
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January 2
January 2
2. January 2025
1839: French photographer Louis Daguerre takes the first photo
1959: The unmanned Russian spaceship Luna I, the first rocket to pass the moon, is launched.
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1800:Carl Friedrich Plattner, German metallurgist and chemist, in Kleinwaltersdorf
1831:Augustus Matthiessen, British chemist and physicist, in London (By electrolysis he produced lithium, strontium and barium in larger quantities together with Bunsen).
1843:Moritz Fleischer, German agricultural chemist, in Kleve
1847:Julija Vsevolodovna Lermontova, Russian chemist, born in Saint Petersburg. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry.
1868:Robert Thomas Dietrich Luther, German chemist, in Moscow
1920:Isaac Asimov, US Biochemist and Science Fiction Author
1947:Klaus Müllen, German chemist, in Cologne
Deceased
1892:George Airy, English Astronomer
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January 3
January 3
3. January 2025
1924:The English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the King, near Luxor, Egypt.
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1980:Joy Adamson, British natural scientist and author
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January 4
January 4
4. January 2025
1885:First successful appendectomy in Iowa, USA
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1737:Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist and politician, in Dijon
1945:Richard Royce Schrock, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner (2005), in Berne (Indiana)
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January 5
January 5
5. January 2025
Conrad Röntgen demonstrates for the first time the X-rays named after him
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1842:Carl Engler, German chemist (technical chemistry, petroleum chemistry), in Weisweil
Deceased
1922:Henry Shackleton, Irish Antarctic researcher
1930:Ludwig Claisen, German chemist (Claisen condensation; ClaisenTiščenko reaction, Claisen rearrangement), in Godesberg
1981:Harold Clayton Urey, American chemist, in La Jolla (California)
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January 6
January 6
6. January 2025
1838: First public demonstration of a telegraph by Samuel Morse
Deceased
1731:Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist, in Paris
1884:Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and biologist
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January 7
January 7
7. January 2025
1610: Italian astronomer Galileo discovers the four Jupiter moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
1785: Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jeffries fly over the English Channel in a hot-air balloon for the first time.
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1794:Eilhard Mitscherlich, German chemist and mineralogist, in Neuende
1833:Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist, in London
1925:Gerald Durrell, British author and naturalist
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January 8
January 8
8. January 2025
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1942:Stephen Hawking, English physicist and mathematician
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1642:Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
1997:Melvin Calvin, American chemist and biochemist, died in Berkeley. He clarified the dark reactions of photosynthesis (Calvin cycle).
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January 9
January 9
9. January 2025
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1857: Edmund Oskar von Lippmann, German chemist, in Vienna
1868: Søren Sørensen, Danish biochemist, at Havrebjerg
1869: Richard Abegg, German chemist, in Gdansk
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1848: Caroline Lucretia Herschel, English Astronomy
1998: Fukui Ken'ichi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate, in Kyot
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January 10
January 10
10. January 2025
1926: Fritz Lang's Sci-Fi film Metropolis premiered in Berlin
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1866:Wilhelm Traube, German chemist, in Ratibor
1916:Sune Karl Bergström, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, in Stockholm
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1778:Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist
1997: Sir Alexander Robert Todd, Baron of Trumpington, British chemist and Nobel Laureate, in Cambridge
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January 11
January 11
11. January 2025
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1906:Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD, in Baden, Germany
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1753:Hans Sloane, British physicist and natural scientist
1935:Carl Paal, German-Austrian chemist
1988:Isidor Rabi, US physicist
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January 12
January 12
12. January 2025
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1580:Johan Baptista van Helmont, Flemish universal scientist, doctor, natural scientist and chemist, in Brussels
1779:Nicolas Clément-Désormes, French physicist and chemist, in Dijon
1792:Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist, on Skagersholms bruk
1899:Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner, in Olten
1927:Leslie organ, British chemist and co-founder of the ligand field theory, in London
Deceased
1665:Pierre de Fermat,French mathematician
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January 13
January 13
13. January 2025
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1780:Pierre Jean Robiquet, French chemist, in Rennes
1848:Franz von Soxhlet, German agricultural chemist (Soxhlet extractor), in Brno
1899: Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, German chemist, in Wroclaw
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January 14
January 14
14. January 2025
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1875: Albert Schweitzer, French mission surgeon
Deceased
1742: Edmond Halley, English Astronomer
1898: Lewis Carroll, English mathematician and author
1902: Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist, in Oslo
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January 15
January 15
15. January 2025
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1785:William Prout, British physician and chemist, in Horton
1895:Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (1945), in Helsinki
Deceased
1883:Karl Ludwig Reimer, German chemist and industrialist
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January 16
January 16
16. January 2025
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1870:Wilhelm Normann, German chemist, in Petershagen
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1806:Nicolas Leblanc, French physician and chemist, in Saint Denis
1960:Friedrich Leibbrandt, German chemist, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
1967:Robert Van de Graff, US nuclear physicist
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January 17
January 17
17. January 2025
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1706:Benjamin Franklin, US scientist and statesman
1795:Anselme Payen, French chemist, physicist and mathematician, in Paris
Deceased
1911:Francis Galton, English anthropologist and explorer
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January 18
January 18
18. January 2025
1778: Captain Cook discovers the Sandwich Islands, today's Hawaii
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1792: Karl Gustav bishop, German geologist and chemist, in Wöhrd
1815: Warren de la Rue, British astronomer and chemist, at Guernsey
1825: Edward Frankland, English chemist, in Churchtown. With diethylzinc he was the first organometallic compound of zinc.
1841: Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, German chemist, in Leipzig
1861: Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist (inventor of the thermite process), in Berlin
1933: David Bellamy, English botanist
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1995: Adolf Butenandt, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1939), in Munich
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January 19
January 19
19. January 2025
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1736:James Watt, Scottish inventor
1838:Carl Alexander von Martius, German chemist (Martius yellow), in Munich
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1861:Albert Niemann, German chemist, in Goslar. He was the first to isolate cocaine from coca leaves and gave it its name.
1869:Carl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach, German chemist, natural scientist, industrialist and philosopher, in Leipzig
1967:Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (coined the term >>Vitamin<<), in Albany
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January 20
January 20
20. January 2025
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1930: Edwin Aldrin, US Astronaut
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January 21
January 21
21. January 2025
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1901:Elisha Gray, US Inventor
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January 22
January 22
22. January 2025
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1767: Johann Friedrich Pierer, German physician and lexicographer
1796: Karl Ernst Claus, German-Russian chemist and discoverer of ruthenium
1865: Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
1880: Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis
1936: Alan J. Heeger, US-American chemist and physicist
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1858: Carl Friedrich Plattner, German metallurgist and chemist
1909: Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist
1952: Alexander Behm, German physicist
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January 23
January 23
23. January 2025
1556:An earthquake in Shanxi Province, China, kills about 830,000 people
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell, born in England, graduates from the New York medical school and becomes the first female doctor.
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1876:Otto Paul Hermann Diels, German chemist and Nobel laureate (1950 - Diels-Alder reaction), in Hamburg
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January 24
January 24
24. January 2025
1978: A Russian satellite crashes in the Canadian Northwest Territory
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1872:Morris William Travers, English chemist, in London. He is a co-discoverer of the noble gases neon, krypton and xenon.
1896:Hermann Zorn, German chemist, in Hamburg.
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January 25
January 25
25. January 2025
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1627:Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist
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January 26
January 26
26. January 2025
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1744:Johann Friedrich Henckel, German physician, mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist, in Freiberg
1823:Edward Jenner, English physicist
1891:Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer
1954:Adolf Spilker, German chemist and technician, in Bonn, Germany
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January 27
January 27
27. January 2025
1879:Thomas Edison patents the electric lamp
1967: Three American astronauts die in a test of an Apollo spaceship.
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1903:John Eccles, Australian physiologist
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January 28
January 28
28. January 2025
1986: The American Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after the launch of Cape Canaveral, the crew dies.
Born
1880:Herbert Max Finlay Friendly, German colloid chemist, in Charlottenburg
1922: Robert William Holley, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), in Urbana
Dedicated
This entry is dedicated to my father, who died on January 28, 2015.
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January 29
January 29
29. January 2025
1886 Karl Benz patents the first petrol car
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1688: Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, mystic and theologian
1773: Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist
1810: Ernst Eduard Kummer, German mathematician
1838: Edward W. Morley, US-American chemist
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1838: Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder, German geologist and mineralogist
1946: Otto Brunck, German chemist
1988: Seth Neddermeyer, US-American physicist
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January 20
January 20
30. January 2025
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1949:Peter Agre, US chemist and Nobel laureate (2003), in Northfield (Minnesota)
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1948:Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer
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January 31
January 31
31. January 2025
1966: The Russian space probe Luna 9 launches to the moon, where it is the first soft landing probe on 3 February.
Born
1868: Theodore William Richards, American chemist, in Germantown. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914.
1881: Irving Langmuir, American chemist, physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry.
1929: Rudolf Mößbauer, German physicist, Nobel Prize winner (Mößbauer effect)
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1918: Johann Puluj, Ukrainian physicist
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