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Science Facts - January Month

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1 January 1941	British Biologist Sir Martin J. Evans (Co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mices by the use of embryonic stem cells) was born.
4 January 1643	English mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton (established classical mechanics) was born.
4 January 1940	British Physicist Brian Josephson (Co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical predictions of the Josephson effect) was born.
4 January 1963	Norwegian Neuroscientist May- Britt Moser (Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain) was born.
6 January 1795	French Chemist Anselme Payen (Discoverer of the enzyme diastase and the carbohydrate cellulose) was born.
7 January 1941	English Chemist John E. Walker (Co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate) was born.
8 January 1891	German Physicist Walther Bothe (Co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his development of the coincidence counting method in the study of cosmic radiation and the discoveries he made with it) was born.
10 January 1936	American Physicist and radio astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson (Co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation) was born.
11 January 1924	French neuroendocrinologist Roger Guillemin (Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain) was born.
12 January 1942	Swiss born Astrophysicist Michel Mayor (Co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star) was born.
13 January 1864	German Physicist Wilhelm Wien (Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat) was born.
13 January 1960	American Physicist Eric Betzig (Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy) was born.
18 January 1896	The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
20 January 1931	American Physicist David Lee (Co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3) was born.
21 January 1912	German born Biochemist Konrad Emil Bloch (Co-winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism) was born.
22 January 1908	Soviet Physicist Lev Landau (Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium) was born.
22 January 1936	American Physicist Alan J. Heeger (Co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of conductive polymers) was born.
23 January 1876	German Chemist Otto Diels (Co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis) was born.
23 January 1929	Canadian Chemist John Charles Polanyi (Co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in Chemical Kinetics) was born.
25 January 1627	Irish Chemist Robert Boyle (Known foe Boyle’s law) was born.
26 January 1911	German- born Physicist Polykarp Kusch (Co-winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron) was born.
28 January 1922	American Biochemist Robert W. Holley (Co-winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for describing the structure of an alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis) was born.

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