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Explore 366 days of chemistry history in anecdotes. Find out more about what happened on today’s date or explore the whole collection below.

January

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February

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March

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On This Day - Mar 01 : Jacobus van't Hoff died
2014-02-07T10:47:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 02 : Discovery of radioactivity
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 03 : Joseph Wharton was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 04 : First carbon dating method
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 05 : Emmett Culligan was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 06 : Mendeleev's Periodic Table
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 07 : The atomic nucleus revealed
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 08 : Otto Hahn was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 09 : Stanley Thompson was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 10 : Charles Hatchett died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 11 : Alexander Fleming died
2012-11-02T15:06:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 12 : William Perkin was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 13 : Frederick Walton was born
2017-03-10T13:44:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 14 : George Eastman died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 15 : Nevil Sidgwick died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 16 : First liquid fuelled rocket
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 17 : Carl Jacob Löwig was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 18 : Superconductivity session
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 19 : Walter Haworth was born
2018-01-02T12:20:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 20 : Volta revealed the battery
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 21 : Plutonium was named
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 22 : Robert Millikan was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 23 : First noble gas reaction
2017-03-23T16:40:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 24 : Joseph Priestley was born
2012-11-02T15:07:00+00:00
On This Day - Mar 25 : HIV has no latent period
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 26 : Christian Anfinsen was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 27 : Paul Lauterbur died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 28 : Nuclear plant meltdown
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 29 : New electron microscope
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 30 : The first anaesthetic used
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Mar 31 : Robert Bunsen was born
2017-03-31T10:16:00+01:00

April

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On This Day - Apr 01 : Ferdinand Brickwedde died
2014-09-10T10:35:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 02 : Theodore Richards died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 03 : New soap-making process
2012-10-03T10:24:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 04 : Synthesis of Vitamin B6
2012-10-03T10:25:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 05 : Synthesis of morphine
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 06 : Teflon invented
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 07 : Louis Fieser was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 08 : Melvin Calvin was born
2012-10-03T10:26:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 09 : Frank Cotton was born
2012-11-02T15:10:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 10 : Robert Woodward was born
2012-11-02T15:10:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 11 : Percy Julian was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 12 : Otto Meyerhoff was born
2012-11-02T15:12:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 13 : Tellurium discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 14 : Nuclear batteries used
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 15 : de Marignac died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 16 : LSD effects discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 17 : Chemical naming established
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 18 : Paul de Boisbaudran born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 19 : Glen Seaborg was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 20 : Franz Achard died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 21: Paul Karrer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 22 : Early chemical warfare
2012-11-02T15:13:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 23 : Max Planck was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 24 : Roger Kornberg was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 25 : Wolfgang Pauli was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 26 : Chernobyl nuclear disaster
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 27 : Philip Abelson was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Apr 28 : Atom split
2013-02-04T15:07:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 29 : Harold Urey was born
2012-11-02T15:13:00+00:00
On This Day - Apr 30 : Discovery of the electron
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00

May

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On This Day - May 01 : AC motor patented
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 02: Nicholson split water
2012-10-03T10:07:00+01:00
On This Day - May 03 : George Thomson was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 04 : Louis Thénard was born
2012-11-02T15:14:00+00:00
On This Day - May 05 : Arthur Schawlow was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 06 : Victor Grignard was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 07 : Arda Alden Green was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 08 : Thomas Hancock was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 09 : Manfred Eigen was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 10 : Caesium was discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 11 : Koji Nakanishi was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 12 : Dorothy Hodgkin was born
2012-11-02T15:15:00+00:00
On This Day - May 13 : Johannes Thiele was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 14 : First smallpox vaccination
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 15 : Pierre Curie was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 16 : Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 17 : Joseph Lockyer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 18 : Dow Chemical Company
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 19 : Max Perutz was born
2012-11-02T15:17:00+00:00
On This Day - May 20 : Erika Cremer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 21 : Bengt Samuelsson was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 22 : Herbert Brown was born
2012-10-25T16:27:00+01:00
On This Day - May 23 : John Bardeen was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 24 : Daniel Fahrenheit was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 25 : Pieter Zeeman was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 26 : Ernest Solvay died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 27 : John Bailar was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 28 : Alfred Nier was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 29 : Explorers climb Everest
2012-11-02T15:18:00+00:00
On This Day - May 30 : Krypton was discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - May 31 : Louis Ignarro was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00

June

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On This Day - Jun 01 : Flixborough disaster
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 02 : Edward Elgar was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 03 : Emmet Culligan died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 04 : French Chemical Society
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 05 : Johan Gadolin was born
2017-06-05T09:59:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 06 : Richard Smalley was born
2012-11-01T10:34:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 07 : Robert Mulliken was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 08 : Neptunium discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jul 09 : Ben Mottelson was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 10 : André-Marie Ampère died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 11 : Carbon dioxide discovered
2013-01-08T11:51:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 12 : Fritz Lipmann was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 13 : James Maxwell was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 14 : Alois Alzheimer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 15 : Pilâtre de Rozier died
2012-11-02T15:20:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 16 : First vanadium isolated
2012-11-02T15:21:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 17 : Donald James Cram died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 18 : Jerome Karle was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 19 : Ernst Chain was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 20 : Mary Good was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 21 : Boron was isolated
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 22 : International Year of Chemistry Experiment
2015-03-13T16:05:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 23 : Etienne-Louis Malus born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 24 : Johannes Wislicenus born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 25 : Walther Nernst was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 26 : Fluorine was isolated
2012-11-02T15:22:00+00:00
On This Day - Jun 27 : First nuclear power plant
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 28 : Richard Erlenmeyer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 29 : Peter Waage was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Jun 30 : Magnesium discovered
2018-07-27T15:53:00+01:00

July

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On This Day – Jul 01 : Charles Goodyear died
2012-11-02T15:23:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 02 : Sir William Bragg was born
2012-11-02T15:24:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 03 : Discovery of bromine
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 04 : Ernst Beckmann was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 05 : George de Hevesy died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 06 : Oil rig destruction
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 07 : Rocket apparatus fueled with solid 'explosive material'
2016-07-07T10:45:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 08 : Jason Cardelli detection
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 09 : Amedeo Avogadro died
2012-10-23T11:55:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 10 : Onnes made liquid helium
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 11 : Samuel Goudsmit was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 12 : Discovery of xenon
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 13 : Cannizzaro was born
2012-11-02T15:27:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 14 : Sir William Perkin died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 15 : Albert Ghiorso was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 16 : Nuclear bomb detonated
2012-11-02T15:27:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 17 : Frederick Abel was born
2013-12-12T15:59:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 18 : Robert Hooke was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 19 : Pelletier died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 20 : James Woodhouse professor
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 21 : Rudolph Marcus was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 22 : Selman Waksman was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 23 : Vladimir Prelog was born
2017-07-24T09:27:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 24 : Sir James Chadwick died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 25 : Rosalind Franklin was born
2012-11-02T15:30:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 26 : The Curies married
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 27 : John Dalton died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 28 : Earl Tupper was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 29 : Isidor Isaac Rabi was born
2012-11-02T15:30:00+00:00
On This Day – Jul 30 : John Antoine Chaptal died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Jul 31 : Gene therapy in USA
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00

August

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On This Day – Aug 01 : Preparation of oxygen
2012-11-02T15:31:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 02 : Discovery of positrons
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 03 : Platinum catalysis
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 04 : Nicolas-Jacques Conté born
2016-07-29T13:28:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 05 : Seymour Lipsky was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 06 : Mars rover landed
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 07 : Atmosphere of Mars
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 08 : Henri Hess was born
2015-01-09T09:24:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 09 : Amedeo Avogadro was born
2012-11-02T15:33:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 10 : Synthesis of aspirin
2012-11-02T15:34:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 11 : Solar eclipse visible
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 12 : Phenol used in surgery
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 13 : Discovery of argon
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 14 : Hans Christian Ørsted born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 15 : Mass spectrometer built
2012-11-02T15:36:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 16 : Robert Bunsen died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 17 : Aldrich Chemical Company
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 18 : The solar spectrum
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 19 : Johan Gottlieb Gahn born
2013-07-04T12:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 20 : Plutonium iodate isolated
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 21 : Carbon dioxide cloud
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 22 : Patent for liquid soap
2014-08-22T11:45:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 23 : Robert Curl was born
2012-11-02T15:38:00+00:00
On This Day – Aug 24 : Ray McIntire was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 25 : Hans Adolf Krebs was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 26 : Antoine Lavoisier born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 27 : Carl Bosch was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 28 : Worcester sauce made
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 29 : Meitnerium synthesised
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 30 : Jacobus van't Hoff was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Aug 31 : First chemotherapeutic drug
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00

September

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On This Day – Sep 01 : Francis William Aston born
2012-11-02T15:38:00+00:00
On This Day – Sep 02 : Friedrich Ostwald was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 03 : Fritz Pregl was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 04 : Stanford Moore was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 05 : Ludwig Boltzmann died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 06 : John Dalton was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 07 : Friedrich Kekulé was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 08 : Cholera outbreak
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 09 : Seaborgium discovery
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 10 : DNA fingerprinting
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 11 : Rudolf Schoenheimer died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 12 : Irène Joliot-Curie born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 13 : Americium was made
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 14 : Ferid Murad was born
2012-11-02T15:41:00+00:00
On This Day – Sep 15 : Neil Bartlett was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 16 : Montreal Protocol
2012-11-02T15:43:00+00:00
On This Day – Sep 17 : Le Chatelier died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 18 : Edwin McMillan born
2013-08-30T13:52:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 19 : Chemical structure defined
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 20 : James Dewar was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 21 : Loius Cailletet born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 22 : Michael Faraday born
2014-09-10T10:43:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 23 : Richard Zsigmondy died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 24 : Georges Claude born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 25 : Separation of iron
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 26 : Biosphere 2
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 27 : Ciamician, solar energy
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 28 : Metre was defined
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 29 : CERN was established
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day – Sep 30 : Discovery of oxygen
2018-09-28T10:19:00+01:00

October

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On This Day - Oct 01 : Thalidomide was marketed
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 02 : First atomic clock
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 03 : Charles Pedersen was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 04 : Kenichi Fukui was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 05 : Dirk Coster was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 06 : Chemical from Coal Facility
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 07: Niels Bohr atom
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 08 : Le Chatelier was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 09 : Hermann Fischer was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 10 : First demo of cyclotron
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 11 : Nobel prize for ozone
2012-10-11T14:40:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 12 : Iron lung respirator
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 13 : First zinc oxide
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 14 : Alfred Nobel first patent
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 15 : First contraceptive pill
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 16 : Ether as anaesthetic
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 17 : First nuclear power plant
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 18 : Schoenbein was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 19 : Samuel Guthrie died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 20 : James Chadwick was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 21 : William Mitchell was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 22 : Xerography was performed
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 23 : Mole day
2014-10-27T10:11:00+00:00
On This Day - Oct 24 : Henrik Dam found vitamin K
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 25 : Marjorie Vold was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 26 : Arthur Kornberg died
2012-11-02T15:45:00+00:00
On This Day - Oct 27 : Spectroscope was invented
2013-01-03T15:55:00+00:00
On This Day - Oct 28 : Christopher Ingold was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 29 : Cloud seeding
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Oct 30 : Linus Pauling Nobel Prize
2013-02-04T15:08:00+00:00
On This Day - Oct 31 : Robert Mulliken died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00

November

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On This Day - Nov 01 : First hydrogen bomb test
2012-11-02T15:46:00+00:00
On This Day - Nov 02 : Conrad Willgerodt was born
2015-11-02T15:10:00+00:00
On This Day - Nov 03 : Antifouling paint patent
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 04 : Oak Ridge nuclear disaster
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 05 : 5000 year old beer
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 06 : Ian Heilbron was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 07 : Raman was born
2016-11-07T17:15:00+00:00
On This Day - Nov 08 : Xrays discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 09 : Darmstadtium was created
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 10 : Ernst Otto Fischer was born
2012-11-02T13:32:00+00:00
On This Day - Nov 11 : Discovery of cosmic rays
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 12 : Water declared a compound
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 13 : Edward Doisy was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 14: First fullerene discovered
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 15 : Chlorine declared element
2016-07-28T09:52:00+01:00
On This Day - Nov 16 : Americium discovered
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On This Day - Nov 17 : Nicolas Lemery was born
2012-11-02T13:34:00+00:00
On This Day - Nov 18 : George Wald was born
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On This Day - Nov 19 : James Sumner was born
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On This Day - Nov 20 : Francis Aston died
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On This Day - Nov 21 : Hieronymus Richter was born
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On This Day - Nov 22 : Louis Néel was born
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On This Day - Nov 23 : Henry Moseley was born
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On This Day - Nov 24 : Simon van der Meer was born
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On This Day - Nov 25 : Adolph Kolbe died
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On This Day - Nov 26 : Discovery of niobium
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On This Day - Nov 27 : Lars Onsager was born
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On This Day - Nov 28 : Royal Society was founded
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On This Day - Nov 29 : Iodine was discovered
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On This Day - Nov 30 : Smithson Tennant was born
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On This Day - Dec 01 : Martin Klaproth was born
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On This Day - Dec 02 : Atomic Age began
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On This Day - Dec 03 : Bhopal disaster
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On This Day - Dec 04 : Pioneer 10 closest to Jupiter
2016-03-09T10:05:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 05 : Werner Heisenberg was born
2016-02-05T16:16:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 06 : Nicolas Leblanc was born
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On This Day - Dec 07 : First thermosetting plastic
2012-12-07T16:14:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 08 : Roentgenium discovered
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On This Day - Dec 09 : Fritz Haber was born
2012-11-02T13:39:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 10 : Alfred Nobel died
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Dec 11 : Explosion at Buncefield
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On This Day - Dec 12 : Compounds of californium
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On This Day - Dec 13 : Charles Coulson was born
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On This Day - Dec 14 : Max Planck quantum theory
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On This Day - Dec 15 : Becquerel was born
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On This Day - Dec 16 : Johann Ritter was born
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On This Day - Dec 17 : Willard Libby was born
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On This Day - Dec 18 : J J Thomson was born
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On This Day - Dec 19 : Thomas Andrews was born
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On This Day - Dec 20 : Jaroslav Heyrovskȳ was born
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On This Day - Dec 21 : Thomas Graham was born
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On This Day - Dec 22 : Liquid oxygen was made
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On This Day - Dec 23 : Axel Cronstedt was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Dec 24 : Medical use of radioisotope
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On This Day - Dec 25 : William Gregor was born
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On This Day - Dec 26 : Radium was discovered
2013-12-10T17:08:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 27 : Louis Pasteur was born
2012-09-27T13:12:00+01:00
On This Day - Dec 28 : Dewar gave lecture on air
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On This Day - Dec 29 : Discovery of heavy water
2012-11-02T13:42:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 30 : Tungsten filaments patent
2012-11-02T13:41:00+00:00
On This Day - Dec 31 : Drunkometer was invented
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