Science Facts
Science Facts - April Month
| 1 April 1865 | Austrian -born chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Made research in colloids) was born. |
| 1April 1976 | Jovian - Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the Astronomer Patrick Moor |
| 2 April | World Autism Awareness Day. (UN) |
| 3 April 1973 | The first portable cell phone call was made in New York City, United States. |
| 3 April 1984 | Indian Astronaut Mr.Rakesh Sharma travelled into the Space. |
| 5 April 1929 | Norwegian Physicist Ivar Giaever (Co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids) was born. |
| 6 April 1911 | German Biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (Made discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol with Konrad Bloch) was born. |
| 6 April 1949 | German -born Physicist Horst Ludwig Stormer (Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations) was born. |
| 6 April 1965 | Launch of Early Bird, the first Communications Satellite to be placed in Geosynchronous Orbit. |
| 7 April 1944 | Japanese Physicist Makoto Kobayashi (Co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature) was born. |
| 8 April 1911 | American Chemist Melvin Calvin (Discoverer of Calvin Cycle) was born. |
| 10 April 1927 | American Scientist Marshall Warren Nirenberg was born |
| 12 April 1955 | The Polio Vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective. |
| 15 April 1874 | German Physicist Johannes Stark (Discoverer of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric field ) was born. |
| 15 April 1961 | American molecular biologist Carol W. Greider (Co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomeraze) was born. |
| 16 April 1728 | Scottish Chemist Joseph Black (Known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat/ specific heat. and carbon dioxide) was born. |
| 18 April 1905 | American Scientist George H. Hitchings (Co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment) was born. |
| 20 April 1927 | Swiss physicist Karl Alexander Muller (Worked for superconductivity in ceramic materials) was born. |
| 22 April | International Earth Day. |
| 22 April 1909 | Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (Co-discoverer of nerve growth factor NGF) was born. |
| 23 April 1858 | German Physicist, Max Planck (who wrote the Planck Constant) was born |
| 25 April | World Malaria Day (WHO) |
| 25 April 1935 | Canadian Physicist James Peebles (Co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology) was born. |
| 27 April 1959 | American biologist Andrew Z. Fire (Co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference-gene silencing by double-strand RNA) was born. |
| 27 April 1962 | Norwegian neuroscientist Edvard I. 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. |
U.N. - United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization, UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization