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Science Facts - October Month

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2 October 1852	Scottish Chemist William Ramsay (Winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry who discovered the noble gases) was born.
2 October 1917	English born Biologist Christian de Duve (Co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell) was born.
3 October 1904	American Chemist Charles J. Pedersen (Co-winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers) was born.
4 October	World Space Week (by U.N.)
4 October 1916	Russian Physicist Vitaly Ginzburg (Co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids) was born.
4 October 1957	Soviet Union launched first artificial Earth Satellite named "Sputnik-1"
5 October 1882	American rocket scientist Robert Goddard was born.
6 October 1903	Irish Physicist Ernest Walton (Co-winner of the 1951 Nobel prize in Physics for their work on the transmutation of the atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles) was born
7 October 1885	Danish Physicist Niels Bohr (Who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory ) was born.
7 October 1939	English Chemist Harold Kroto (Co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of fullerenes) was born.
8 October 1917	English Biochemist Rodney Robert Porter (Co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for determining the chemical structure of an antibody) was born.
9 October 1852	German Chemist Hermann Emil Fischer (Winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of the extra ordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses) was born.
11 October 1884	German Chemist Friedrich Bergius (Co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high- pressure methods) was born.
13 October 1773	The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
14 October 1914	American Physicist Raymond Davis Jr. (Co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics who detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun) was born.
18 October 1967	The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and become the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another Planet.
20 October 1891	English Physicist James Chadwick (Winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932) was born.
22 October 1881	American Physicist Clinton Davisson (Co- winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson– Germer experiment) was born.
22 October 1903	American Geneticist George Wells Beadle (Co-winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells) was born.
22 October 2008	India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
23 October 1905	Swiss Physicist Felix Bloch (Co-winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for their development of new ways and methods for Nuclear Magnetic Precision measurements) was born.
28 October 1914	British Biochemist Richard Laurence Millington Synge (Co-winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of Partition Chromatography) was born.
30 October 1939	American scientist Leland H. Hartwell (Co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division[duplication]) was born.
31 October 1835	German Chemist Adolf von Baeyer (Winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on Organic Dyes and Hydroaromatic compounds) was born.

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