July 9th – Amedeo Avogadro died on this day in 1856
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was an Italian scientist. His hypothesis – now known as Avogadro’s Law – states that equal volumes of gases at...
July 8th- Astrophysicist Jason Cardelli announced that he had detected thallium (Tl) and lead (Pb) in interstellar gas on this day in 1994
Interstellar space refers to the areas between star systems within a galaxy. It varies hugely in composition, and contains atomic and subatomic particles, molecular and...
July 7th – Robert Goddard obtained the first of a series of patents for his ‘rocket apparatus’ designs on this day in 1914
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. It was fuelled by liquid oxygen (O2) and gasoline, and reached a...
July 6th – The Piper Alpha disaster which killed 167 workers of the coast of Aberdeen is the world’s deadliest ever oil rig accident
The Piper Alpha was once Britain's biggest single oil and gas producing platform, bringing more than 300,000 barrels of crude a day – 10% of...
July 5th- Hungarian-Swedish chemist George de Hevesy died on this day in 1966
He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioisotopes and their use as tracers in studying the chemical processes within...
July 4th – German chemist Ernst Otto Beckmann was born on this day in 1853
He is known for inventing the Beckmann thermometer. Enter Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853-1923) was born in Solingen, the German town famed for its knives. The son...
July 3rd – Discovery of Bromine
Antoine-Jerome Balard announced the discovery of bromine (Br) on this day in 1826. The French chemist was an unknown young laboratory assistant when he discovered...