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Science Facts - September Month

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2 September 1853	German Chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (Winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his scientific contribution to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities) was born.
2 September 1922	American Physicist Arthur Ashkin (Co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for the artificial tweezers and their application to biological systems) was born.
3 September 1938	Japanese Chemist Ryoji Noyori (Co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions) was born.
4 September 1906	German Biologist Max Delbruck (Co-winner the 1969 Nobel prize in Physiology / Medicine for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses) was born.
6 September 1892	English Physicist Edward Appleton (Winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work proving the existence of the ionosphere) was born.
7 September 1917	Australian Chemist John Cornforth (Co-winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions) was born.
8 September 1918	British Chemist Derek Harold Richard Barton(Co-winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry) was born.
9 September 1922	German –born Physicist Hans Georg Dehmelt (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for co-developing the ion trap technique) was born.
11 September 1960	Japanese Physicist Hiroshi Amano (Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light- emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy saving white light sources) was born.
12 September 1897	French Physicist Irene Joliot-Curie (Co-winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of induced radioactivity) was born.
12 September 1940	Germn Chemist/Physicist Joachim Frank (Co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo- electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution) was born.
14 September 1951	British Physicist F. Duncan M. Haldane (Co-winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter) was born.
16 September	“International Day for the preservation of the Ozone Layer”. (U.N.)
21 September	"International Day of Peace"(U.N.).
21 September 1926	American Physicist Donald A. Glaser (Winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics) was born.
22 September 1791	Michael Faraday (Discoverer of electromagnetic Induction) was born.
23 September 1915	American Physicist Clifford Shull (Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the neutron scattering technique) was born.
23 September 2023	Autumnal equinox: On this day, Day and night becomes equal on the earth.
25 September 1866	American geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan (Winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome play in heredity) was born.
28 September 1852	French Chemist Henri Moissan (Winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds) was born.
28 September 2008	Space X launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
29 September 1901	Enrico Alberto Fermi (Winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on Induced Radioactivity) was born.
29 September 1932	German Physicist Rainer Weiss (Co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves) was born.

U.N. - United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization, UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization