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Science Facts - September Month

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1 September 1877	British Chemist and Physicist Francis William Aston (Winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of isotopes in many non- radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule) was born.
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.
3 September 1899	Australian virologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet (Co-winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for predicting acquired immune tolerance) 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.
10 September 1892	Arthur Holly Compton (Inventor of Compton effect) 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.
16 September	“International Day for the preservation of the Ozone Layer”. (U.N.)
18 September 1907	American Physicist Edwin McMillan (Co-winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics who is the first to produce a transuranium element, Neptunium) was born.
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.
22 September 2025	Autumnal equinox: On this day, Day and night becomes equal on the earth.
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.
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 plays in heredity) was born.
28 September	“World Rabies Day”. (WHO)
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.

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