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July 1
1. July 2025
1527: Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous of Hesse founds the University of Marburg.
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1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer
1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and physicist
1836: Emil Jacobsen, German chemist and writer
1863: Fritz Raschig, German industrialist, chemist and politician
1875: Dr. Archibald Rudolph Reiss, German chemist, criminalist and university teacher
1904: Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1934: Walter Tilgner, German biologist, nature photographer and sound engineer
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1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist
1948: Bruno H. Bürgel, German astronomer, writer and publicist
1979: Shinichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner
1979: Robert Burns Woodward, US chemist and Nobel Prize winner
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July 2
2. July 2025
1900: With the launch of the LZ 1 of Grafen von Zeppelin, the first voyage of a rigid airship takes place on the shores of Lake Constance.
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1561: Christoph Grienberger, German Jesuit Father and Astronomer
1819: Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist and physician
1836: Ernst Carstanjen, German chemist
1841: Alexander Saizew, Russian chemist
1842: Albert Ladenburg, German chemist
1862: William Henry Bragg, British physicist, born in Westward. In 1915 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics (with his son William Lawrence B.) "for his services to the study of crystal structures by means of x-ray gene beams".
1876: Harriet Brooks, Canadian atomic physicist
1906: Hans Albrecht Bethe born in Strasbourg. The American physicist received the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his contribution to the theory of nuclear reactions, in particular his discoveries about energy production in stars".
1952: Ian Affleck, Canadian theoretical physicist
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1917: Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold, German chemist and physicist
1963: Seth Barnes Nicholson, US-American astronomer
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July 3
July 3
3. July 2025
1869: The world's first rack railway, operated by Mount Washington Cog Railway and leading to Mount Washington, opens in New Hampshire.
1880: Thomas Edison founds Science magazine.
1886: Carl Benz makes his first test drive in Mannheim with his "vehicle with gas engine drive".
Born in
1878: Hans Woldemar Schack, German botanist
1897: Jesse Douglas, US-American mathematician
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1672: Francis Willughby, British natural scientist
1784: Torben Olof Bergman, Swedish chemist, died in Katharinberg. He is responsible for the distinction between organic and inorganic substances. He is also regarded as the founder of analytical chemistry.
1907: Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz, German astronomer
1991: Ernst Witt, German mathematician
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July 4
4. July 2025
1054: Chinese astronomers observe a "new star" in the constellation of Taurus, which will turn out to be a supernova that creates the Crab Nebula.
1913: The chemist Fritz Klatte is granted a patent for his invention, PVC, today the world's most important plastic by mass.
1999: Two robber graves find the Nebra sky disk, which is considered the oldest concrete representation of the sky in the world.
Born in
1853: Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist
1863: Adolf Spilker, German chemist and technician
1866: Otto Brunck, German chemist
1906: Vincent Joseph Schaefer, US-American chemist and meteorologist
1906: Daniel Edwin Rutherford, British mathematician
1907: Hans Linser, Austrian agricultural chemist
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1910: Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish chemist and physicist, double Nobel Prize winner
1941: Eugen Schilling, German chemist
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July 5
July 5
5. July 2025
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1750: Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist, inventor and entrepreneur
1820: William John Macquorn Rankine, British physicist and engineer
1862: George Nuttall, British biologist
1867: Andrew Ellicott Douglass, US-American astronomer, founder of dendrochronology
1891: John Howard Northrop, American chemist, born in Yonkers.
In 1946, together with Wendell Meredith Stanley, he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry "the representation of enzymes and virus proteins in pure form"!
1946: Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize winner
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1826: Joseph-Louis Prous, French chemist, died in Angers. He established the law of constant proportions and was an important analyst of his time.
1906: Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist
1925: Otto Lummer, German physicist
1934: Caesar Ahrens, German chemist
1958: Milton Abramowitz, US-American mathematician
1996: Clyde E. Wiegand, US-American physicist
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July 6
July 6
6. July 2025
1502 Foundation of Leucora (University of Wittenberg, later MLU)
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1686: Antoine de Jussieu, French physicist and botanist
1826: Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff, Dutch biologist
1885: Fritz Arndt, German-Turkish chemist
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1854:Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist, died in Munich. He has generally rendered outstanding services to the characterization of electric current, which is also reflected in the names.
1931: Edward Goodrich Acheson, American chemist and technician
1971: Roger Adams, US-American chemist
1993:John Bolton, English astronomer
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July 7
July 7
7. July 2025
1880: Konrad Duden's Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language is published by Verlag Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig.
Born in
1599: Johann Zeisold, German physicist
1638: François Barrême, French mathematician and one of the founders of bookkeeping
1816: Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer and mathematician
1832: Eduard Mulder, Dutch chemist
1906: William Feller, American mathematician and probability theorist
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1568: William Turner, English naturalist
1895: Gustav Spörer, German astronomer
1909: Walter Ritz, Swiss mathematician
1927: Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician
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July 8
8. July 2025
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1760: Christian Kramp, Alsatian physician, mathematician and physicist
1836: Emil Jacobsen, German chemist and writer, born in Gdansk. He developed the quinoline yellow, an active ingredient against rheumatism, and the adhesive used to stick the label on the pea sausage.
1863: Fritz Raschig, German industrialist, chemist and politician
1875: Archibald Reiss, German chemist, criminalist and university professor
1894: Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist
1895: Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, Soviet physicist of Russian-German origin, Nobel Prize winner
1904: Henri Cartan, French mathematician
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1695: Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist
1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist
1979: Shinichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner
1979: Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1965 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the synthesis of natural substances. He was also very successful in the field of stereochemistry (Woodward-Hoffmann rules).
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July 9
July 9
9. July 2025
1955: The philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell publishes in London the Russell Einstein Manifesto, signed by him and ten other scientists, which deals with the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons.
Born in
1859: Wilhelm Hallwachs, German physicist
1911: John Archibald Wheeler, US-American physicist
1926: Ben R. Mottelson, US-American-Danish physicist
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1856: Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist
1965: Louis Harold Gray, British physicist and radiologist and founder of radiobiology
1986: Karl Heinz Beckurts, German physicist and manager
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July 10th
10. July 2025
1817: The inventor of the kaleidoscope, David Brewster, receives an English patent.
1908: Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes succeeds in liquefying the gas helium for the first time.
Born
1682: Roger Cotes, English mathematician
1780: Franz Ignatz Cassian Hallaschka, Moravian naturalist, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer
1856: Nikola Tesla, American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor of Serbian origin
1877: Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist
1902: Kurt Alder, German chemist, born in Königshütte. In 1950 Alder and Otto Paul Hermann Diels were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of diene synthesis (Diels-Alder Reaktion).
The Alder crater on the moon is also named after him.
1920: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist
1927: Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic
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1393: Guillaume de Harsigny, French doctor
1812: Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist
1851: Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype
1910: Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune
1941: Edmond Marie Lambert van Aubel, Belgian experimental physicist
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July 11th
11. July 2025
1696: Friedrich III of Brandenburg establishes the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architect Art, today's Academy of the Arts.
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1683: Caspar Neumann, German chemist and pharmacist, was born in Züllichau (Brandenburg). He was a representative of the so-called phlogiston theory.
1709:Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, an important Swedish chemist and mineralogist was born in Stora Mellösa. Among other things, he coined the terms pure and applied chemistry.
1732: Jérôme Lalande, French mathematician and astronomer
1860: Friedrich Oltmanns, German botanist
1881: Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author
1882: Leonard Nelson, German mathematician and philosopher
1894: Erna Mohr, German zoologist
1902: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, American physicist
1924: César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic
1927: Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer
1931: Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic
1950: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist and academic
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1807: George Atwood, British inventor and physicist
1909: Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician
2013: Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic
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July 12th
July 12th
12. July 2025
1898: William Ramsay and Morris William Travers succeed in separating the noble gas xenon from raw krypton.
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1863: Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist
1868: Henri Abraham, French physicist
1875: Ernst Sigismund Fischer, Austrian mathematician
1879: Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician
1913: Willis E. Lamb, American physicist
1926: Carl Adam Petri, German mathematician and computer scientist
1928:Elias James Corey, American chemist and Nobel Prize winner, born in Methuen. In 1990 he was awarded the Nobelpeis for chemistry for his work, in particular on retrosynthesis.
1928: Louis Auslander, American mathematician
1935: Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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1945: Boris Grigoryevich Galyorkin, Soviet engineer and mathematician
1959: Walther Lietzmann, German mathematician, teacher and mathematics didacticist
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July 13th
13. July 2025
Born
1527: John Dee, English universal scholar, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, mystic and alchemist
1741: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg, German mathematician, physicist and philosopher
1817: Franz Leopold Sonnenschein, German chemist, born in Cologne. He devoted himself to analytical and forensic chemistry.
1924: Donald Osterbrock, American astronomer
1932: Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist and non-fiction author
1934: Peter Bulthaup, German philosopher and chemist
1937: Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist
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1762: James Bradley, British astronomer and Anglican theologian
1774: Otto von Münchhausen, German botanist
1884: Ernst Carstanjen, German chemist
1896: Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, died in Bonn. His comprehensive work includes the Kekulé structures of gasoline.
1921: Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1923: Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist, died in Berlin. His name is associated with the Beckmann thermometer and the Beckmann rearrangement.
1934: Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic
1937: Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist
1964: Kurt Diebner, German nuclear physicist
1974: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
2005: Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist
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July 14th
July 14th
14. July 2025
1729: The physicist Stephen Gray builds the world's first overhead line to prove that electrical energy can be transmitted.
1853: Franklin Pierce opens the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. The World's Fair lasts until November 1, 1854.
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1671: Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician
1793: George Green, British mathematician and physicist
1801: Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist
1868: Caesar Ahrens, German chemist
1921: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, British chemist, born in Springside.
Together with Ernst Otto Fischer, he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his description of sandwich compounds (such as ferrocene).
1935: Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist (Negishi coupling), Nobel Prize winner
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1685: Johann Caspar Bauhin, Swiss physician and botanist
1791: Joseph Gärtner, German botanist
1827: Augustin Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer
1892: Wilhelm Büchner, German pharmacist and chemist, in Pfungstadt
1907:William Henry Perkin, English chemist and discoverer of anilline colours
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July 15th
15. July 2025
1640: The Turku Academy is the first Finnish university to be officially opened. The university was transformed into the University of Helsinki in the 19th century.
1965: The American space probe Mariner 4 flies past Mars and provides the first close-ups of an foreign planet.
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1865: Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist
1873: Henri Buisson, French physicist
1909: Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist
1915: William O. Baker, American chemist
1915: Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic
1918: Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
1922: Leon Max Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1926: Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic
1928: Carl Woese, American biologist
1930: Stephen Smale, American mathematician
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998: Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer
1919: Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner, is considered the founder of classical organic chemistry
1958: Giuseppe Armellini, Italian astronomer
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July 16th
16. July 2025
1969: Apollo 11 is sent on its first manned landing on the moon.
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1738: Wilhelm Bernhard Trommsdorff, German physician, chemist and botanist
1746: Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian
1876: Alfred Stock, German chemist born in Gdansk. He is one of the most important inorganic chemists of the early 20th century. He dealt with the elements mercury, boron and silicon.
1888: Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1894: Friedrich Leibbrandt, German chemist, was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he worked extensively in alkaloid chemistry and in chemotherapeutic, plant- and animal-psychological investigations.
1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist
1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer
1918: Samuel Victor Perry, English biochemist and rugby player
1926: Irwin Rose, American biochemist
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1850: Enne Heeren Dirksen, German professor of mathematics
1921: Giovanni Arcangeli, Italian botanist
1968: Hu Xiansu, Chinese botanist
1976: Nikolos Muschelishvili, Georgian mathematician
1988: Herbert Lawrence Anderson, American nuclear physicist
1994: Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
2015: Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic
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July 17th
17. July 2025
1621: The University of Rinteln is inaugurated and its statutes are drawn up.
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1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher
1827: Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist
1860: Otto Lummer, German physicist
1893: Boris Rajewsky, German biophysicist and radiation researcher
1894: Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist
1910: Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist
1913:Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist, born in Berlin. He is regarded as the father of German analytical chemistry.
1920: Gordon Gould, American physicist
1929: Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic
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1785: Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, British botanist
1794: John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman
1894: Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist
1912: Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and theoretical physicist
1944: William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist
1980: Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic
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July 18th
18. July 2025
1877: Thomas Alva Edison succeeds for the first time in recording sound on a steel roller covered with tinfoil (phonograph).
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie report on the discovery of a new element, which they call polonium.
Born
1013: Hermann von Reichenau, German monk, historian, writer, composer, mathematician and astronomer
1728: Pietro Arduino, Italian botanist
1813: Pierre Alphonse Laurent, French mathematician
1840: Giovanni Arcangeli, Italian botanist
1853: Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1891: Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and publicist
1892: Karl Scharrer, Austrian agricultural chemist
1894: Armand James Quick, American physician and chemist
1916: Charles Kittel, American physicist
1922: Thomas Samuel Kuhn, American physicist, science theorist and historian
1937: Roald Hoffmann, American chemist, born in Zloczow (Poland).
In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with Kenichi Fukui.
1948: Hartmut Michel, German biochemist, born in Ludwigsburg. In 1988 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber.
1951: Elio Di Rupo, Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium
1980: Bobby Henderson, American physicist, inventor of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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1583: Johannes Thal, German physician and botanist
1659: Christoph Scheiner, German Jesuit, optician and astronomer
1884: Ferdinand von Hochstetter, German geologist, naturalist and explorer
1968: Corneille Heymans, Belgian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
1979: Wolfgang Yourgrau, American social psychologist, physicist and journalist
1994: Jens Scheer, German nuclear physicist and opponent of nuclear power
1997: Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer
2007: Karl Seebach, German mathematician and didactician
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July 19th
19. July 2025
Born
1719: Michael Gottlieb Agnethler, Transylvanian scientist and numismatist
1806: Alexander Dallas Bache, American physicist
1807: Friedrich Hermann Loew, German insect researcher and teacher
1846: Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer and physicist
1878: Charles-Victor Mauguin, French professor of mineralogy
1881: Friedrich Dessauer, German radiologist, physicist, politician, MdR, entrepreneur and publicist
1886: Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician
1894: Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician
1894: Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven
1921: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1936: David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist
1938: Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist and astronomer
1945: Richard Henderson, British structural and molecular biologist
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1611: Jacob Flach, German mathematician, physician and botanist
1838: Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist, died in Paris. Dulong Petit's law (specific heat capacity of metals linked to their molar molar masses) is named after him.
1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician
1945: Franz Aigner, Austrian physicist
1982: Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician
2013: Peter Ziegler, Swiss geologist
2014: Jerzy Jurka, Polish biologist
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July 20th
July 20th
20. July 2025
1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin launch the first manned moon landing with Apollo 11 as part of the US Apollo program.
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1804: Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist
1822: Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist
1876: Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician
1882: Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher
1890: Julie Marie Vinter Hansen, Danish astronomer
1897: Tadeus Reichstein, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine
1906: Heinz Krekeler, German chemist and politician
1931: Horst Prinzbach, German chemist
1947: Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
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1866: Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician
1908: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist
1911: Hermann Schubert, German mathematician
1922: Andrei Andreyevich Markov, Russian mathematician
1937: Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle
1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
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July 21
21. July 2025
1969: Neil Armstrong is the first man to enter the moon (21 July 1969 at 02:56:20 UT), followed shortly thereafter by Buzz Aldrin.
Born in
1923: Rudolph A. Marcus, US chemist and Nobel laureate born in Montreal, Canada. He was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to electron transfer reactions.
1943: Peter Gröbner, Austrian chemist and biochemist
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1779: Michael Adelbulner, German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
2004: Edward B. Lewis, US-American biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
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July 22
22. July 2025
Born in
1711: Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German physicist and mathematician
1755: Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician
1784: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, German mathematician, astronomer and geodesist
1795: Gabriel Lamé, French mathematician and physicist
1833: Friedrich Hultsch, German classical philologist and mathematical historian
1887: Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1888: Selman Abraham Waksman, US American biochemist,
1930: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian mathematician
1930: Dieter Klaua, German mathematician
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1813: George Shaw, British botanist and zoologist
1826: Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian
1995: Otakar Borůvka, Czech mathematician
2006: Herbert Walther, German physicist
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July 23
23. July 2025
1847: In Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz gives a lecture on the constancy of force and underpins the law of energy conservation.
1851: Emperor Franz Joseph approves the construction of a Central Institute for Meteorological and Magnetic Observations in the Austrian Empire. This creates the world's first state weather service, today's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
Born in
1860: Adolf Schmidt, German geophysicist
1886: Walter Schottky, German physicist and electrical engineer
1906: Wolfgang Gentner, German physicist
1906: Vladimir Prelog born in Sarajevo. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975. The stereochemist's merits include the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules for describing the configuration of C atoms.
1928: Vera Rubin, American astronomer
1945: Gregor Morfill, German physicist
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1902: Elsa Neumann, German physicist
1916: Sir William Ramsay died in High Wycombe. In 1904, Ramsay received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry "in recognition of the merit he earned by discovering the indifferent gaseous precursors in the air and determining their place in the periodic system".
1968: Henry Hallett Dale, American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
1990: Otto Ambros, German chemist, convicted war criminal and military economy leader
2002: William Luther Pierce III, US-American physicist, founder and head of right-wing extremist organizations
2005: Ray Crist, US-American chemist
2007: Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner
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July 24
July 24
24. July 2025
1506: The Red Tower is officially completed in Halle (Saale).
Born
1822: Adolf Overweg, German astronomer, geologist and African explorer
1843: William de Wiveleslie Abney, British chemist and photographer
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1791: Ignaz von Born, Austrian mineralogist and geologist
1910: Adolf August Winkelmann, German physicist
1934: Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician
1974: James Chadwick, British physicist
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July 25
25. July 2025
Born in
1800: Heinrich Göppert, German botanist, palaeontologist and professor
1818: Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Swiss natural scientist
1891: Gertrud Kornfeld, German chemist
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1894: Charles Romley Alder Wright, English chemist
1933: Gustav Embden, German biochemist
1944: Jakob Johann von Uexküll, German biologist and philosopher
1998: Ludwig Acker, German chemist and food chemist
1999: Alexander Abian, US-American mathematician
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July 26
26. July 2025
Born in
1835: Moritz Alphons Stübel, German natural scientist
1872: Maria Dahl, German zoologist
1919: James Lovelock, British chemist, physician and biophysicist
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1941: Henri Léon Lebesgue, French mathematician
1942: Georg Pick, Austrian mathematician
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July 27
27. July 2025
Born in
1801: George Biddell Airy, British astronomer
1848: Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist
1881: Hans Fischer, German chemist and physician, Nobel Prize winner
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1844: John Dalton, English natural scientist and teacher
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July 28
July 28
28. July 2025
Born in
1635: Robert Hooke, English physicist, mathematician and inventor
1904: Pavel Alexeyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1915: Charles H. Townes, US-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1954: Gerd Faltings, German physicist and mathematician
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1944: Ralph Howard Fowler, British physicist
1968: Otto Hahn, German chemist, pioneer of radiochemistry, discoverer of the nuclear fission of uranium, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry (1944)
2000: Abraham Pais, Dutch physicist
2002: Archer John Porter Martin, British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
2004: Francis Crick, British physicist and biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA
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July 29
29. July 2025
Born in
1888: Vladimir Sworykin, Russian engineer, physicist and inventor (Kinescope Tube)
1898: Isidor Isaac Rabi, US-American physicist
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July 30
30. July 2025
1741: Vitus Bering is the first European to discover Alaska during the Great Nordic Expedition.
Born in
1949: Gerd Antes, German mathematician and biometrician
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July 31
31. July 2025
1815: In Philadelphia, County Durham, Great Britain, the boiler of the experimental steam locomotive Brunton's Mechanical Traveller explodes. 16 bystanders die. This accident is the oldest known boiler bang of a locomotive and to this day the one with the highest number of deaths ever.
1901: The German meteorologists Arthur Berson and Reinhard Süring reach the world record height of 10,800 metres in the gas balloon in Prussia. Their temperature measurements pave the way for the discovery of the stratosphere in 1902.
Born in
1591: Nikolaus Pompeius, German philologist and mathematician
1704: Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician
1718: John Canton, British physicist
1800: Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist
1843: Friedrich Robert Helmert, German geodesist and mathematician
1861: Georg Popp, German chemist, university lecturer and criminalist
1918: Paul D. Boyer, US biochemist
1923: Stephanie Kwolek, US-American chemist
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1321: Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakuschi, Moroccan mathematician and astronomer
1953: Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Selinski, Russian chemist
1980: Pascual Jordan, German physicist
2000: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst, Dutch astrophysicist
2004: Wilhelm Fresenius, German chemist
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