The events in Science for the month of October…
October 1
Otto Frisch was a noted Austrian physicist born 1904, worked on the Manhattan Project as part of the team that built the atomic bomb.
October 2
William Ramsay, a British chemist born 1852, discovered neon gas.
October 3
William Crawford Gorgas born 1854, served as the American Surgeon-General who invented treatment for yellow fever
October 4
William Griggs born 1832, invented photo-chromo lithography
October 5
Louis Lumiere born 1864 made the first motion picture in 1895
October 6
Reginald Fessenden born 1866 who broadcast the first program of voice and music
October 7
Louis S. B. Leakey born 1903 was a famous archaeologist and anthropologist pioneered the search for evidence of human origins
October 8
Rodney Robert Porter born 1917, an English biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for determining the chemical structure of an antibody
October 9
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist born 1873 gave first exact solution to the Einstein general relativity
October 10
Erik Acharius, a Swedish botanist born 1757 is regarded as father of lichenology
October 11
Friedrich C. R. Bergius born 1884, a German who derived benzine from brown coal won the Nobel Prize
October 12
Elmer Sperry born 1860 inventor of the gyrocompass
October 13
Rudolf Virchow was a German scientist born 1821 is regarded as “Father of Pathology”
October 14
Elwood Haynes born 1857, an auto pioneer who built earliest American automobiles
October 15
Anthony Hopkins born 1937, a neurologist who served as the Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians
October 16
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss scientist born in 1708 focused on experimental physiology at the Academy of Science
October 17
Alphonse L.P.P. de Candolle a Swiss botanist born 1806 compiled data from the scientific expeditions taking place at the time.
October 18
Solomon A. Andree born 1854, a Swedish engineer, balloonist, and Arctic explorer
October 19
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born 1910, an Indian-American astrophysicist won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his work on evolution of stars
October 20
James Chadwick, English physicist born 1891 discovered the neutron
October 21
Alfred Nobel born 1833, the Swedish scientist invented the dynamite and after whom the Nobel Prize was named.
October 22
Charles Glenn King born 1896 discovered vitamin C
October 23
Anita Roddick, English manufacturer born 1942 founded the Body Shop.
October 24
Antony van Leeuwenhoek born in 1632 is regarded as the father of microscopy because he invented microscope
October 25
Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor born in 1790 created the Sterling engine.
October 26
Felix the Cat was a famous cartoon cat who first made his debut in 1917
October 27
Issac Singer born in 1811 invented the home sewing machine
October 28
Jonas Salk, American born 1914 invented the polio vaccine.
October 29
Edmond Halley, English scientist born in 1656 showed the orbit for Halley’s Comet
October 30
Daniel Nathans was an American scientist born in 1928 won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes.
October 31
- F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, a German chemist born in 1835 won the Nobel Prize in 1905
-Team, ScienceNow Digital
