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Science Facts - August Month

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1 August 1885	Hungarian Chemist George de Hevesy (Winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers) was born.
1 August 1924	Ukrainian-born Physicist Georges Charpak (Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors ) was born.
2 August 1932	The positron (Antiparticle of the electron) was discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
3 August 1959	Japanese Scientist Koichi Tanaka (Co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analysis of biological micromolecules) was born.
6 August 1881	Prof. Alexander Fleming (Discoverer of Penicillin) was born.
8 August 1901	Ernest Lawrence (Inventor of Cyclotron) was born.
8 August 1902	English Physicist Paul Dirac (Co-winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory) was born.
9 August 1911	American Physicist William Alfred Fowler (Co- winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe ) was born.
10 August 1902	Swedish Chemist Arne Tiselius (Winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on electrophoresis adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins) was born.
10 August 1913	German Physicist Wolfgang Paul (Co-winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics , who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap) was born.
11 August 1926	Lithuanian-born Chemist Aaron Klug (Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes) was born.
12 August 1887	Austrian Physicist Erwin Schrodinger (Co-winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for the formulation of the Schrodinger equation ) was born.
12 August 1919	Well known Indian Scientist Dr.Vikaram Ambalal Sarabhai was born on this day.
13 August 1872	German Chemist Richard Willstatter (Who studied the structure of plant pigments) was born.
13 August 1913	Harry Brearley invented stainless steel.
15 august 1892	French Physicist Louis de Broglie (Winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics for the wave-like behaviour of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927) was born.
16 August 1845	French Physicist Gabriel Lippmann (Winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of a method for reproducing colours by photography, based on the interference phenomenon) was born.
17 August 1870	Frederick Russell (Inventor of first successful typhoid fever vaccine) was born on this day
23 August 1931	American microbiologist Hamilton O. Smith (Co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering type II restriction enzymes) was born.
25 August 1900	German Physician and biochemist Hans Adolf Krebs (Co-winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle ) was born.
26 August 1906	Albert Sabin (Inventor of oral polio vaccine) was born on this day.
29 August	International Day against Nuclear Tests. (by U.N.)
30 August 1852	Dutch Physical and Organic Chemist Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff (The first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry) was born.

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