TIME Collection: Physical Sciences

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• September
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• December

January

• 4th January 1643 - Birth of Isaac Newton

  The history of Newton's apple tree

  • Contemporary Physics
  • R. G. Keesing

• 8th January 1942 - Birth of Stephen Hawking

  Black holes and information theory

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Jacob D Bekenstein

• 10th January 1936 - Birth of Robert Woodrow

  The cosmic microwave background anisotropy and very large structures in the universe: The problem of agreement

  • Astronomical & Astrophysical Transactions
  • B. S. Novosyadlyj

• 12th January 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent for the first time

  The diffraction of radio waves by the curvature of the earth

  • Advances in Physics
  • M.H.L. Pryce F.R.S.

• 13th January 1864 - Birth of Wilhelm Wien

  Information theory and blackbody radiation

  • Contemporary Physics
  • J. Fort

• 15th January 2005 - SMART-1 discovers calcium and other elements on the moon

  The geology of the Moon

  • Contemporary Physics
  • G. Fielder

• 19th January 1851 - Birth of Jacobus Kapteyn

  An astronomer's view of the pole

  • Contemporary Physics
  • C. A. Murray.

• 20th January 1836 - Birth of André-Marie Ampère

  The laws of electromagnetism and an electrostatic analogue

  • Contemporary Physics
  • J. Alan Chalmers

• 21st January 1954 - The world’s first nuclear-powered submarine is launched

  An Introduction to the Axiology of Nuclear Energy

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Tetsuo Sawada

• 21st January 1941 - THE FIRST COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF MAGNESIUM

  Synthesis, crystal structure, and DNA interaction of magnesium(II) complexes with Schiff bases

  • Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Nan Zhang et al.

• 22nd January 1908 - Birth of Lev Landau

  The problem of high temperature superconductivity

  • Contemporary Physics
  • V. L. Ginzburg

• 24th January 1872 - BIRTH OF MORRIS WILLIAM TRAVERS

  Coupled cluster calculations of mean excitation energies of the noble gas atoms He, Ne and Ar and of the H2 molecule

  • Molecular Physics
  • Stephan P.A. Sauer et al.

• 26th January 1911 - Birth of Polykarp Kusch

  The anomalous magnetic moment of the electron

  • Contemporary Physics
  • M. Vogel

• 27th January 1936 - Birth of Samuel C.C. Ting

  Charmonium Spectroscopy—A Tool for Understanding the Strong Interaction

  • Nuclear Physics News
  • Ulrich Wiedner

• 29th January 1926 - Birth of Abdus Salam

  Computation of Electromagnetic Force and Torque for Fibrous Sailcraft Propelled by Radiation

  • Electromagnetics
  • Keith Whites & Timothy Knowles

• 31st January 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the radiation belt that now bears his name

  Basic features of coherent radiation generated by relativistic charge bunches

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Michael J. Moran & Britton Chang

February

• 1ST February 1905 - BIRTH OF EMILOI G SEGRE

  The electronic stopping power of channeled antiproton

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • S. T. Nakagawa

• 1st February 1952 - BIRTH OF ROGER YONCHIEN TSIEN

  Role of non-Condon vibronic coupling and conformation change on two-photon absorption spectra of green fluorescent protein

  • Molecular Physics
  • Yuejie Ai et al.

• 4TH February 1875 - BIRTH OF LUDWIG PRANDTL

  Density, relative permittivity, viscosity and speed of sound for 2-methoxyethanol + isobutylamine mixtures

  • Physics & Chemistry of Liquids
  • Cezary M. Kinart et al.

• 5TH February 1915 - BIRTH OF ROBERT HOFSTADTER

  Scattering of electrons by atoms

  • Advances in Physics
  • Joseph Callaway

• 6TH February 1927 - BIRTH OF GERARD K O’NEILL

  Neutrino Radiation at Muon Colliders and Storage Rings

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Nikolai Mokhov & Andreas Van Ginneken

• 6th February 1886 - CLEMENT WINKLER DISCOVERED THE ELEMENT GERMANIUM

  The study on the dynamical correlation function, G(r, t), of liquid germanium

  • Physics & Chemistry of Liquids
  • Y. Kato et al.

• 8TH February 1906 - BIRTH OF CHESTER cARLSON

  New aspects of electronic properties of amorphous selenium and its use in xerography

  • Contemporary Physics
  • G. Pfister

• 10TH February 1785 - BIRTH OF CLAUDE-LOUIS NAVIER

  The Navier–Stokes-α equations revisited

  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Paul H. Roberts

• 11TH February 1839 - BIRTH OF JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS

  Thermodynamics of a long-range triangle-well fluid

  • Molecular Physics
  • F.F. Betancourt-Cárdenas

• 12TH February 1804 - BIRTH OF HEINRICH LENZ

  A Variable Metric Electrodynamics. Plane Waves - Abstract

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • B. Jancewicz

• 14th February 1878 - Birth of Julius Nieuwland, developer of neoprene

  Performance of neoprene-phenolic adhesives on different substrates

  • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
  • Lity Alen Varghese & Eby Thomas Thachil

• 15TH February 1564 - BIRTH OF THE “FATHER OF MODERN PHYSICS”

  Solar system sputtering

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • T. A. Tombrello

• 18TH February 1838 - BIRTH OF EERNST MACH

  Laser-induced shock waves in condensed matter: some techniques and applications

  • High Pressure Research
  • S. N. Luo et al.

• 18th February 1871 - Birth of Harry Brearley - Inventor of stainless steel

  Tensile behaviour of 316LN stainless steel at elevated temperatures

  • Materials at High Temperatures
  • H. X. Pei et al.

• 18th February 1913 - THE TERM 'ISOTOPE' WAS INTRODUCED

  The isotope effects on a hydrogen transfer using path integral instanton method

  • Molecular Simulation
  • Tsutomu Kawatsua & Shinichi Miura

• 20TH February 1844 - BIRTH OF LUDWIG BOLTZMANN

  Geometrical optics and blackbody radiation

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Pablo BenÍTez et al.

• 21ST February 1947 - THE FIRST INSTANT CAMERA

  The silver halide photographic process

  • Advances in Physics
  • J.F. Hamilton

• 22ND February 1857 - BIRTH OF HEINRICH HERTZ

  Full-wave FEM simulations of electromagnetic waves in strongly magnetized non-homogeneous plasma

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • G. Torrisi et al.

• 23RD February 1941 - PLUTONIUM IS ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME

  Preparation of Plutonium Metal by Lithium Reduction of Ammonium Plutonium(IV) Fluoride

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Keiji Naito et al.

• 24TH February 1866 - BIRTH OF PYOTR LEBEDEV

  Electromagnetic radiation of MeV electrons in thick aligned single crystals

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • S. B. Dabagov & M. A. Kumakhov

• 26TH February 1799 - BIRTH OF EMILE CLAPEYRON

  Thermodynamic potentials and Clausius–Clapeyron equation for strained solids

  • Phase Transitions
  • Ph.B. Moin

• 28th February 1900 - FELIX HOFFMAN WAS ISSUED A US PATENT FOR ASPIRIN

  Investigation into the nature of interactions in aspirin–water clusters including SAPT, AIM and NBO theories

  • Molecular Simulation
  • Mehdi D. Esrafili & Hadi Behzadi

March

• 1ST MARCH 1896 - RADIOACTIVITY IS DISCOVERED

  Natural radioactivity levels in building materials used in Egypt

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Fawzia Ahmad

• 3rd March 1826 - BIRTH OF JOSEPH WHARTON

  Nickel(II) complexes of N-(dialkylcarbamothioyl)-4-nitrobenzamide as single-source precursors for the deposition of nanostructured nickel sulfide thin films by chemical vapor deposition

  • Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Sohail Saeed et al.

• 4TH MARCH 1862 - BIRTH OF ROBERT EMDEN

  The formation of stars

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Antonio Chrysostomou & Phil Lucas

• 5TH march 1979 - DISCOVERY OF SOFT GAMMA REPEATERS

  Proposal for Electric Power Generation by Using X-Rays and Gamma Rays

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Jun'ichi Hirota et al.

• 8TH MARCH 1804 - BIRTH OF ALVAN CLARK

  A synthetic aperture telescope based on a pair of gratings

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Ke Ji et al.

• 03/09/1912 - BIRTH OF STANLEY THOMPSON

  Dibutylphosphinoylmethyloxythiacalix[4]arenes. Synthesis, structure, americium, europium and technetium extraction

  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Sergiy Kharchenko et al.

• 10TH MARCH 1923 - BIRTH OF VAL LOGSDON FITCH

  Discrete symmetries and CP violation

  • Contemporary Physics
  • David Bailin

• 12th MARCH 1925 - BIRTH OF LEO ESAKI

  Tunneling through Coulombic barriers: quantum control of nuclear fusion

  • Molecular Physics
  • Rajdeep Saha

• 14TH MARCH 1879 - BIRTH OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

  The general theory of relativity: The first thirty years

  • Contemporary Physics
  • S. Chandrasekhar

• 16TH MARCH 1859 - BIRTH OF ALEXANDER POPOV

  The diffraction of radio waves by the curvature of the earth

  • Advances in Physics
  • M.H.L. Pryce F.R.S.

• 03/17/1803 - BIRTH OF CARL JACOB LÖWIG

  The bromine nuclear quadrupole moment revisited

  • Molecular Physics
  • Stella Stopkowicz et al.

• 19TH MARCH 1900 - BIRTH OF FREDERIC JOLIOT

  Three-dimensional atom localization in a five-level M-type atomic system

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Yihong Qi et al.

• 20TH MARCH 1916 - EINSETEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS PUBLISHED

  New fields in general relativity

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Richard T. Hammond

• 21ST MARCH 1768 - BIRTH OF JOSEPH FOURIER

  The greenhouse effect

  • Contemporary Physics
  • B. J. Mason

• 03/21/1942 - ELEMENT 94 (PLUTONIUM) WAS NAMED

  Plutonium breeding of light water cooled fast reactors

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Yoshiaki Oka, Takashi Inoue & Taishi Yoshida

• 24TH MARCH 1891 - BIRTH OF SERGEY IVANIVICH VAVILOV

  Measurement and Numerical Analysis of Ultrashort Electron Bunch Using Fluctuation in Incoherent Cherenkov Radiation

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Kei Nakamura et al.

• 28TH MARCH 1930 - BIRTH OF JEROME FRIEDMAN

  The structure of the proton

  • Contemporary Physics
  • A. D. Martin

• 28th March 1979 - THE THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN PENNSYLVANIA UNDERWENT A PARTIAL MELTDOWN

  Evaluation of the precautionary action zone using a probabilistic consequence analysis

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Masanori Kimura, Shogo Takahara & Toshimitsu Homma

• 29TH MARCH 1941- BIRTH OF JOSEPH HOOTON TAYLOR

  Matter wave interferometry and gravitational waves

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Pacôme Delva & Ernst Rasel

• 30th march 1842 - FIRST ANAESTHETIC WAS ADMINISTERED

  Virtual screening of protein kinase C inhibitors from natural product library to modulate general anaesthetic effects

  • Natural Product Research
  • Junhui Zhao & Chuixian Zhou

• 31ST MARCH 1906 - BIRTH OF SIN-ITIRO TOMONAGA

  Quantum electrodynamics in three-dimensionally periodic structures

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • G. Kurizki

April

• 2nd April - 1618 Birth of Francesco Maria Grimaldil who coined the word "diffraction"

  Diffraction by a perfectly electromagnetic conducting (PEMC) step

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Saeed Ahmed et al.

• 4th April - 1949 Birth of Shing-Tung Yau known for Calabi-Yau manifolds used in string theory

  The string theory landscape: a tale of two hydras

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Joseph P. Conlon.

• 5th April - 1622 Birth of Vincenzo Viviani who took an early accurate measurement of the speed of sound

  Speed of sound in tenuous elastic networks

  • Philosophical Magazine Letters
  • Andre Pavlovitch.

• 6th April - 1949 Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer, discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect

  Microscopic theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect

  • Advances in Physics
  • J.K. Jain.

• 12th April - 1851 Birth of Edward Walter Maunder, astronomer known for studies of sunspots

  Sunspots

  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • H. U. Schmidt.

• 13th april 1782 - TELLURIUM (TE) WAS DISCOVERED

  Nanostructured tellurium semiconductor: from nanoparticles to nanorods

  • Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
  • Q. Li Yuan, H. Yong Yin & Q. Lin Nie

• 14th april 1969 - FIRST CIVILIAN USE OF NUCLEAR BATTERIES

  Nuclear effects in atomic transitions

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Adriana Pálffy

• 14th April - 1629 Birth of Christiaan Huygens, who iscovered a moon of Saturn, Titan, as well as explaining its rings

  Electromagnetic Background for Possible Magnetic Levitation of the Superconducting Rings of Saturn

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • V. V. Tchernyi (Cherny) & E. V. Chensky

• 15th April - 1874 Birth of Johannes Stark who split spectral lines in an electric field - known as the Stark effect

  Dynamics of the Optical Stark Effect in Semiconductors

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • M. Joffre et al.

• 17th April - 1863 Birth of Augustus Edward Hough Love, known for his mathematical theory of elasticity

  Practical non-linear elasticity theory for large strains

  • High Pressure Research
  • S. H. B. Bosher & D. J. Dunstan

• 19th April 1880 - Birth of Albert W. Hull, inventor of the magnetron

  Rotatable magnetron sputtering: downscaling for better understanding

  • Materials Technology
  • R De Gryse et al.

• 22nd April - 1891 Birth of Harold Jeffreys astronomer noted for first suggesting that the Earth's core is liquid

  Temperature and composition of the Earth's core

  • Contemporary Physics
  • D. Alfè et al.

• 24th April - 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched

  Observing with the Hubble Space Telescope

  • Contemporary Physics
  • John K. Davies

• 26th April - 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident occurs in the USSR

  Development of an Atmospheric Dispersion Model for Accidental Discharge of Radionuclides with the Function of Simultaneous Prediction for Multiple Domains and its Evaluation by Application to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Hiroaki Terada & Masamichi Chino

• 27th april 1896 - BIRTH OF WALLACE HUME CAROTHERS

  Experimental methods to determine in-plane material properties of polyurethane-coated nylon fabric

  • The Journal of The Textile Institute
  • Radek Glaser & Vincent Caccese

• 28th April - 1900 Birth of Jan Oort astronomer who discovered the galactic halo

  Magnetic fields in galaxy halos and their importance

  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Ulrich Klein

May

• 4th May 1675 - The construction of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich is ordered by King Charles II

  Greenwich observatory

  • Contemporary Physics
  • W. H. McCrea F.R.S.

• 8th May 1786 - BIRTH OF THOMAS HANCOCK

  Using a sulfur-bearing silane to improve rubber formulations for potential use in industrial rubber articles

  • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
  • A. Ansarifar et al.

• 10th May 1960 - DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENT CAESIUM

  Photoionization spectroscopy of excited states of cold caesium dimers

  • Molecular Physics
  • Nadia Bouloufa et al.

• 11th May 1924 - Birth of Antony Hewish, Nobel Prize winner for the development of aperture synthesis in radio astronomy

  Optical Synthetic Aperture Analogues of Two Radio Interferometers

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • D.E. Yansen, G.O. Reynolds & D.J. Cronin

• 14th May 1899 - Birth of Pierre Victor Auger

  Specific energy from Auger and conversion electrons of 131I, 188 Re-anti-CD20 to a lymphocyte's nucleus

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • E. Torres-García & T. A. Carrillo-Cazares

• 15th May 1859 - BIRTH OF PIERRE CURIE

  Chemical and structural disorder effects on the Curie temperature

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Loris Ferrari

• 20th May - World Metrology Day

  Parity measurements in quantum optical metrology

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Aravind Chiruvelli & Hwang Lee

• 23rd May 1908 - BIRTH OF JOHN BARDEEN

  Dose rate effect of gamma on JFET transistors

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • J. Assaf

• 25th May 1865 - BIRTH OF PIETER ZEEMAN

  Resolved fluorescence spectra of NiH. Electronic structure, electronic energy transfer, and the Zeeman effect in low-lying states

  • Molecular Physics
  • Amanda J. Ross et al.

• 28th May 1872 - Birth of Marian Smoluchowski, the pioneer of statistical physics

  Statistical physics of shear flow: a non-equilibrium problem

  • Contemporary Physics
  • R. M.L. Evans

• 30th May 1908 - Birth of Hannes Alfvén, Nobel Prize winner for his work on magnetohydrodynamics

  Development of a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics code for electromagnetic pumps

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Takatoshi Asada et al.

June

• 15th June 1900 - Birth of Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize for his invention of holography

  A novel phaseless frequency scanning based on indirect holography

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • J. Laviada et al.

• 8th June 1916 - Birth of Francis Crick. He discovered the molecular structure of DNA along with James Watson

  Folding and unfolding of a triple-branch DNA molecule with four conformational states

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Sandra Engel et al.

• 9th June 1905 - Albert Einstein’s paper on the photoelectric effect is published.

  Analytical formulas for calculating photoelectric attenuation coefficients

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Orhan Gurler et al.

• 11th june 1754 - BLACK DISCOVERED CARBON DIOXIDE

  Calculation of diffusion coefficient for supercritical carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide+naphthalene system by molecular dynamics simulation using EPM2 model

  • Molecular Simulation
  • Hidenori Higashi & Kazuhiro Tamura

• 13th June 1831 - Birth of James Clerk Maxwell - 2014 Clerk Maxwell Prize Winning Paper

  Magnetic-field-induced chiral hidden order in URu2Si2

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • P. Kotetes, A. Aperis & G. Varelogiannis

• 14th June 1865 - BIRTH OF ALOYSIUS ALZHEIMER

  Computer-aided discovery of novel non-peptide inhibitors against amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation for treating Alzheimer's disease

  • Molecular Simulation
  • Zheng-Li Zhou et al.

• 17th June 1832 - Birth of William Crookes

  William Crookes and the quest for absolute vacuum in the 1870s

  • Annals of Science
  • Robert K. DeKosky

• 18th June 1898 - Birth of Carl Hermann, known for his invention of a standardised notation in crystallography

  Crystallography and surface morphology of ion-irradiated silver

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • A. Latif et al.

• 19th June 1906 - BIRTH OF SIR ERNST BORIS CHAIN

  Diclavatol and tetronic acids from Penicillium griseoroseum

  • Natural Product Research
  • José Vinicius da Silva et al.

• 24th June 1883 - Birth of Victor Francis Hess, Nobel Prize for his discovery of cosmic rays

  Cosmic-ray muon radiography of UO2 fuel assembly

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Tsukasa Sugita et al.

• 25th June 1928 - Birth of Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

  Superconductor-normal metal quantum phase transition in dissipative and non-equilibrium systems

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Fernanda Deus & Mucio A. Continentino

• 26th June 1910 - Birth of Roy J. Plunkett, discoverer of the process for making poly-tetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon

  Work of adhesion of water to a Teflon surface and stability of the system Teflon-air bubble-water

  • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
  • Bronislaw Janczuk & Tomasz Bialopiotrowicz

• 30th June 1808 - DAVY ANNOUNCED THE DISCOVERY OF MAGNESIUM (MG), CALCIUM (CA), STRONTIUM (SR) AND BARIUM (BA)

  Statistical analyses of deformation twinning in magnesium

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • I.J. Beyerlein et al.

July

• 2nd July 1992 - Stephen Hawking breaks British bestseller records

  Merging black holes

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Joan Centrella et al.

• 4th July 2012 - CERN tentatively announces the discovery of the Higgs boson

  Higgs boson: beginning of the end or end of the beginning?

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Frank Close

• 7th July 1959 - Venus occults Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo

  Pattern formation in rapidly oscillating peculiar A stars

  • Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
  • Douglas Gough

• 8th July 1895 - Birth of Igor Tamm, who discovered what is now known as Cherenkov radiat

  Development of TOF-PET using Cherenkov Radiation

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Manabu Miyata et al.

• 14th July 1965 - The Mariner 4 spacecraft takes the first close-up photos of another planet as it flies by Mars

  Sources and sinks of clay minerals on Mars

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Ralph E. Milliken & David L. Bish

• 16th July 1945 - The first test nuclear bomb was detonated

  Physics and War: From Arrows to Atomic Bombs

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Derry W. Jones

• 17th July 1920 - Birth of Gordon Gould, one of the inventors of the laser

  Nonlinear optical interactions of laser modes in quantum cascade lasers

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Aleksander K. Wójcik et al.

• 18th July 1853 - Birth of Hendrik Lorentz, Nobel Prize winner for the discovery and explanation of the Zeeman effect

  Orbital Zeeman effect: Signature of charge in the carriers of ferromagnetism Orbital Zeeman effect: Signature of charge in the carriers of ferromagnetism

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Paulo F. Farinas & Kevin S. Bedell

• 19th July 1983 - Research on the first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head built up from individual CT-scan slices

  Evaluation of radiation exposure upon visual organs during a head CT scan

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Jung Hoon Kim et al.

• 20th July 1898 - BIRTH OF ISIDOR ISAAC RABI

  Metabolic profile of different Italian cultivars of hazelnut (Corylus avellana) by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

  • Natural Product Research
  • Fabio Sciubba et al.

• 31st July 1923 - Birth of Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar

  The durability of Kevlar-epoxy interfaces

  • Composite Interfaces
  • M.R. Piggott & M.M. Reboredo

August

• 1st August 1889 - Birth of Walter Gerlach, known for the experiment on particle deflection conducted jointly with Otto Stern.

  On deflection and focusing of charged and neutral particles

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • F. F. Komarov, M. A. Kumakhob & N. K. Zhevago

• 2nd August 1820 - Birth of John Tyndall, known showing that the Earth’s atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect

  The greenhouse effect

  • Contemporary Physics
  • B. J. Mason

• 2nd August 1932 - AMERICAN PHYSICIST CARL ANDERSON DISCOVERS POSITRONS

  Analyses using neutrons and positrons

  • Neutron News
  • Zsolt Revay et al.

• 4th August 1755 - BIRTH OF NICOLAS-JACQUES CONTÉ

  Polymer/Graphite Nanocomposites: Physical Features, Fabrication and Current Relevance

  • Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering
  • Amara Nasir et al.

• 5th August 1930 - Birth of Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the Moon

  The geology of the Moon

  • Contemporary Physics
  • G. Fielder

• 6th August 1881 - BIRTH OF ALEXANDER FLEMING

  Insight into molecular mechanism underlying the transesterification catalysed by penicillin G amidase (PGA) using a combination protocol of experimental assay and theoretical analysis

  • Molecular Simulation
  • Zhong Ni et al.

• 10th August 1675 - Construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory begins

  Greenwich observatory

  • Contemporary Physics
  • W. H. McCrea F.R.S.

• 10th August 1839 - Birth of Aleksandr Stoletov, known for his work on ferromagnetism and the photoelectric effect

  Photoelectric effect under strong irradiation

  • Contemporary Physics
  • P. Agostini & G. Petite

• 12th August 1887 - Birth of Schrödinger

  On optical solitons of the resonant Schrödinger’s equation in optical fibers with dual-power law nonlinearity and time-dependent coefficients

  • Waves in Random and Complex Media
  • Bulent Kilic & Mustafa Inc

• 13th August 1918 - BIRTH OF FREDERICK SANGER

  Calcium alginate nanocarriers as possible vehicles for oral delivery of insulin

  • Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
  • Shilpi Goswami et al.

• 15th August 1892 - Birth of Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize winner for his work on wave-particle duality

  XXXV. A Tentative Theory of Light Quanta

  • Philosophical Magazine Letters
  • Louis De Broglie

• 19th August 1745 - BIRTH OF JOHAN GOTTLIEB GAHN

  Diffusion of chromium and manganese in γ-TiAl

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Gyanendra Prasad Tiwari et al.

• 20th August 1779 - Birth of J. J. Berzelius, first to discover and isolate silicon

  The influence of silicon and other elements in controlling interparticle friction and sintering of beryllium powder

  • Powder Metallurgy
  • J. W. Butcher & V. D. Scott

• 27th August 1857- birth of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician

  Theoretical characterisation of highly efficient dye-sensitised solar cells

  • Molecular Physics
  • A.S. Shalabi et al.

• 29th August 1831 - The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction is discovered by Michael Faraday

  Faraday and the Philosophical Magazine

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • P. Weinberger

• 30th August 1912 - Birth of Edward Mills Purcell

  Some new techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance

  • Contemporary Physics
  • D. T. Pegg

September

• 1st September 1922 - BIRTH OF FRANCIS W. ASTON

  Interferometric verification for the polarization imaging spectrometer

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Tingkui Mu et al.

• 2nd September 1850 - Birth of Woldemar Voigt. Discovered the Voigt effect.

  Mid-infrared laser magnetic resonance using the Faraday and Voigt effects for sensitive detection

  • Molecular Physics
  • A. Hinz, J. Pfeiffer, W. Bohle & W. Urban

• 7th September 1836 - Birth of August Toepler, known for his electrostatics work.

  Applied electrostatics

  • Contemporary Physics
  • A. W. Bright

• 9th September 1737 - Birth of Luigi Galvani, after which the metallic coating process 'galvanisation' is named.

  Tailoring of the practical adhesion between polyethylene and galvanised steel

  • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
  • Gabrielle M. Pax et al.

• 9th October 1984 - JEFFREYS DISCOVERED DNA FINGERPRINTING

  Synthesis, characterization, and DNA binding of two copper(II) complexes as DNA fluorescent probes

  • Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Ran-Ran Duan et al.

• 10th September 1892 - Birth of Arthur Compton, discovered of what is now known as Compton scattering.

  Compton scattering and electron momentum

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Malcolm J. Cooper

• 15th September 1932 - BIRTH OF NEIL BARTLETT

  Xenon nano-beams for materials research

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • S. Kalbitzer & V. A. Zhukov

• 15TH SEPTEMBER 1929 - BIRTH OF MURRAY GELL-MANN, PIONEER OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS

  Quantum chromodynamics

  • Contemporary Physics
  • D. B. Lightenrerg

• 16th September 1987 - THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON SUBSTANCE THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER SIGNED

  Kinetic Study of Ozone Decay in Homogeneous Phosphate-Buffered Medium

  • Ozone: Science & Engineering
  • Jesús Ferre-Aracil et al.

• 21st September 1926 - Birth of Donald A Glaser, invented the bubble chamber.

  A propane bubble chamber

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Margaret H. Alston et al.

• open access  21st September 1853 - Birth of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - dicoverer of Superconductivity

  Superconductivity in compensated and uncompensated semiconductors

  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  • Youichi Yanase & Naoyuki Yorozu

• 22th September 1791 - BIRTH OF MICHAEL FARADAY

  Faraday and the Philosophical Magazine

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • P. Weinberger

• 28th September 1860 - Birth of Paul Ulrich Villard, the discoverer of gamma rays

  Proposal for Electric Power Generation by Using X-Rays and Gamma Rays

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Jun'ichi Hirota et al.

• 29th September 1954 - THE EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (CERN) OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED

  Higgs boson: beginning of the end or end of the beginning?

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Frank Close

• 30th September 1905 - Birth of Nevill Francis Mott

  Spin polarons and the copper oxide superconductors

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Nevill Mott

• 30th September 1882 - Birth of Hans Geiger

  The Geiger-Müller Counter of 1928

  • Annals of Science
  • Thaddeus J. Trenn

October

• 1st October 1910 - Birth of José Enrique Moyal, who established the “phase space” formula

  Quantum dynamics in phase space: from coherent states to the Gaussian representation

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • P. D. Drummond et al

• 3rd October 1904 - BIRTH OF CHARLES J. PEDERSEN

  Conductometric Studies on Cation-Crown Ether Complexes: A Review

  • Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry
  • Francis A. Christy & Pranav S. Shrivastav

• 4th October 1916 - Birth of Vitaly Ginzburg

  Heavy fermions: superconductivity and its relationship to quantum criticality

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Frank Steglich

• 5th October 1889 - BIRTH OF DIRK COSTER

  Hafnium Polystyrene Composite Particles for the Detection of Organophosphate Compound

  • Soft Materials
  • Brittany Souder et al.

• 7th October 1885 - Birth of Niels Bohr

  Niels Bohr and the dawn of quantum theory

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • P. Weinberger

• 9th October 1879 - Birth of Max von Laue, discovered x-ray diffraction

  Direct observation of thermal stability of M23C6 carbides during reheating using in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction

  • Philosophical Magazine Letters
  • X.F. Zhang & Y. Komizo

• 10th October 1957 - The world’s first major nuclear accident, Windscale, Cumbria.

  Thermal analysis of heated cylinder simulating nuclear reactor during loss of coolant accident

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Hiroyuki Sato et al.

• 11th October - NOBEL PRIZE TO CRUTZEN, MOLINA AND ROWLAND FOR THEIR RESEARCH ON OZONE.

  Influence of ozone on N-doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes

  • Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
  • Nikos G. Tsierkezos & Uwe Ritter

• 15th October 1951 - THE FIRST CONTRACEPTIVE PILL WAS DEVELOPED

  Artemisia annua as a possible contraceptive agent: a clue from mammalian rat model

  • Natural Product Research
  • Amos O. Abolaji et al.

• 17th October 1604 - Johannes Kepler observes a supernova & later writes a book: De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii

  Binary Paths to Type Ia Supernovae Explosions, edited by Rosanne Di Stefano, Marina Orio and Maxwell Moe

  • Contemporary Physics
  • R. Ellis

• 18th October 1799 - BIRTH OF CHRISTIAN F. SCHÖNBEIN

  Sorption and Diffusion of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide into Nitrocellulose with or without Cosolvents

  • Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering
  • Meiling Sun & Sanjiu Ying

• 20th October 1891 - Birth of James Chadwick discovered the neutron

  Chadwick's neutron

  • Contemporary Physics
  • N. Feather

• 22nd October - XEROGRAPHY PERFORMED FOR THE FIRST TIME

  The Role of Adhesion in Electrophotographic Digital Printing

  • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
  • D. S. Rimai et al.

• 22nd October 1881 - Birth of Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, developed equations about seismic waves travelling

  Resonant multiple wave scattering in the seismic response of a city

  • Waves in Random and Complex Media
  • G. Lombaert & D. Clouteau

• 23 October 1885 - Birth of Jan Czochralski, who invented a method for growing single crystals of metals

  The growth of metal single crystals

  • International Materials Reviews
  • R. W. Honeycombe

• 27th October 1959 - THE SPECTROSCOPE WAS INVENTED

  Spectroscopic investigation of nitric acid monohydrate

  • Molecular Physics
  • Philipp Baloh et al.

• 30th October 1941 - Birth of Theodor W Hänsch, worked on laser spectroscopy

  Shortcuts for understanding rovibronic spectroscopy of ultracold alkali metal diatomic molecules

  • Molecular Physics
  • William C. Stwalley et al.

November

• 2nd November 2000 - The first long-duration stay on the International Space Station

  Plasma Research at the Limit: From the International Space Station to Applications on Earth (with DVD-ROM), by Gregor Morfill, Yuri Baturin, and Vladimir Fortov

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Alan D.R. Phelps

• 2nd November 1841 - BIRTH OF CONRAD H.C. WILLGERODT

  Ultrasound-Mediated Willgerodt–Kindler Reactions: Non-thermal Synthesis of Thioacetamides

  • Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements
  • Mohammad M. Mojtahedi et al.

• 5th November 1948 - Birth of William Daniel Phillips, worked on laser cooling

  Laser cooling of rotation and vibration by optical pumping

  • Molecular Physics
  • I. Manai et al.

• 7th November 1867 - Birth of Marie Curie

  Laser cooling of a solid from ambient temperature

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • A. Rayner et al.

• 8th November 1895 - WILHELM RÖNTGEN DISCOVERED X-RAYS

  Angular Distribution of Fluorescent L X-Rays and Compton-Scattering Photons

  • Spectroscopy Letters
  • I. Han & L. Demir

• 10th November 1961 - Birth of Rudolf Grimm, first physicist to make a Bose-Einstein condensate from molecules

  Squeezed-state generation via atomic collisions in a Bose–Einstein condensate inside an optical cavity

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • A. Dalafi et al.

• 10th November 1918 - BIRTH OF ERNST OTTO FISCHER

  Synthesis of ferrocene derivatives exhibiting low-temperature mesomorphism

  • Liquid Crystals
  • Dinesh N. Navale et al.

• 12th November 1842 - Birth of Lord Rayleigh, discovered Rayleigh scattering, which explains why the sky is blue

  Near-infrared Rayleigh scattering of SF6

  • Molecular Physics
  • Marcel Snels et al.

• 14th November 1985 - FIRST DISCOVERY OF A FULLERENE PUBLISHED

  The magnetic circular dichroism spectrum of the C60 fullerene

  • Molecular Physics
  • Tobias Fahleson et al.

• 14th November 1863 - Birth of Leo Baekeland

  Spall fracture characterization of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymer matrix composite plates

  • Advanced Composite Materials
  • Nobuo Takeda et al.

• 15th November 1738 - Birth of William Herschel, discovered infrared radiation

  Development of radiation-resistant optical fiber for application to observation and laser spectroscopy under high radiation dose

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Chikara Ito et al.

• 17th November 1902 - Birth of Eugene Wigner, who won Nobel Prize for contributions to nuclear and particle physics

  Bayes and Frequentism: a particle physicist’s perspective

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Louis Lyons.

• 20th November 1602 - Birth of Otto von Guericke, known working on the physics of vacuums

  Enhanced vacuum-photoconductivity of chemically synthesized ZnO nanostructures

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Sayan Bayan et al.

• 21st November 1824 - BIRTH OF HIERONYMUS RICHTER

  Formation of embedded indium nitride and indium oxide nanoclusters in silica samples sequentially implanted with indium and nitrogen ions

  • Journal of Experimental Nanoscience
  • P. Santhana Raman et al.

• 24th November 1774 - Birth of Thomas Dick, diffused tension between science and religion

  Science, Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, by David Wilkinson

  • Contemporary Physics
  • Peter J. Bussey.

• 25th November 1814 - Birth of Julius von Mayer, one of the founders of thermodynamics

  The discovery of thermodynamics

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Peter Weinberger

• 26th November 1898 - Birth of Karl Ziegler - discoverer of Metallic catalysts

  Materials design of advanced performance metal catalysts

  • Materials Technology
  • Z. Ma & S. Dai

• 29th November 1803 - Birth of Christian Doppler, who discovered the Doppler Effect

  Analysis of Doppler effect of moving conducting surfaces with Lorentz-FDTD method

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • K.-S. Zheng et al.

• 29th November 1813 - THE DISCOVERY OF IODINE (I) WAS ANNOUNCED

  Iodine-catalyzed addition of aromatic mercaptans to indene

  • Journal of Sulfur Chemistry
  • Zubaidha K. Pudukulathan & Anjaneyulu Kasa

• 30th November 1858 - Birth of Jagadish Chandra Bose, a pioneer in radio and microwave optics

  Flexible microwave sensors for real-time analysis of water contaminants

  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • Olga Korostynska et al.

December

• 1st December 1743 - Birth of Martin Heinrich Klaproth

  Technique for recovering uranium from sludge-like uranium-bearing wastes using hydrochloric acid

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Yusuke Ohashi et al.

• 3rd December 1886 - Birth of Manne Siegbahn, awarded Nobel Prize 1924 for working on x-ray spectroscopy

  X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of cementite dissolution in cold-drawn pearlitic steel

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • J. Chakraborty et al.

• 5th December 1901 - Birth of Werner Heisenberg, formulated the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics

  Sharper uncertainty principles for the windowed Fourier transform

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Ming-Sheng Liu et al.

• 9th December 1926 - Birth of Harry Way Kendall, known for studies on inelastic scattering of electrons

  Electron-impact total cross sections for inelastic processes for furan, tetrahydrofuran and 2,5-dimethylfuran

  • Molecular Physics
  • Chetan Limbachiya et al.

• 9th December 1868 - BIRTH OF FRITZ HABER

  Detection of Chemical Warfare Nerve Agents via a Beckmann Fragmentation of Aldoxime

  • Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements
  • Jin Young Lee et al.

• 11th December 1882 - Birth of Max Born, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics

  Quantum opto-mechanics: from rotation to Coriolis force detection

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Sankar Davuluri & Yuri V. Rostovtsev

• 14th December 1922 - Birth of Nikolay Basov, work lead to the development of the laser

  Effective dispersion in an inhomogeneously broadened single mode laser

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • T.Y. Abi-Salloum et al.

• 14th December 1970 - THE TWISTED NEMATIC FIELD EFFECT IN LIQUID CRYSTALS WAS FILED FOR PATENT

  Periodic deformations induced by a magnetic field in planar twisted nematic layers

  • Liquid Crystals
  • Dariusz Krzyzański & Grzegorz Derfel

• 16th December 1776 - Birth of Johann Wilhelm Ritter, discoverer of ultraviolet light

  Pulse-induced mechanoluminescence of ultraviolet-irradiated SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy phosphors

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Piyush Jha & B.P. Chandra

• 17th December 1908 - BIRTH OF WILLARD F. LIBBY

  Environmental studies in Antarctica on the basis of tritium and radiocarbon measurements

  • Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
  • Detlef Hebert & Klaus Fröhlich

• 18th December 1856 - Birth of J J Thomson, discovered electrons/isotopes and invented the mass spectrometer

  Performance evaluation of a resonance ionization mass spectrometer developed for the FFDL system of fast reactors

  • Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Yoshihiro Iwata et al.

• 19th December 1961 - Birth of Eric Allin Cornell, who was the first to synthesise a Bose-Einstein condensate

  Squeezed-state generation via atomic collisions in a Bose–Einstein condensate inside an optical cavity

  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • A. Dalafi, M.H. Naderia & M. Soltanolkotabi

• 23rd December 1722 - BIRTH OF AXEL FREDRIK CRONSTEDT

  Nickel coated on beech wood by electroless nickel coating: effects of complexing agent concentrations on nickel film properties

  • Composite Interfaces
  • Jamal Amer & Sameer Al-Khawaja

• 24th December 1818 - Birth of James Prescott Joule, the pioneer of thermodynamics

  The discovery of thermodynamics

  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Peter Weinberger

• 28th December 1895 - William Roentgen publishes his paper on the discovery of x-rays

  Surface modification of platinum by laser-produced X-rays

  • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
  • Hamid Latif et al.

• 29th December 1813 0 Birth of Alexander Parkes, inventor of the first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects

  Recycling of end-of-life thermoplastic composite boats

  • Plastics, Rubber and Composites
  • M. E. Otheguy et al.