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Science Facts - July Month

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1 July 1929	American Biologist Gerald Edelman (Co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for work on the immune system ) was born.
2 July 1862	English Physicist William Henry Bragg (Co-winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for their services in the Analysis of Crystal Structure by means of X- rays ) was born.
4 July 2005	Successful collision of NASA’s satellite “Deep Impact” with comet into the space was held at the distance 13.04 million km from the Earth.
6 July 1885	Louis Pasteur had successfully tested the vaccine against rabies on human.
8 July 1895	Russian Physicist Igor Tamm (Co-winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect) was born.
9 July 1894	Soviet Physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature Physics) was born.
10 July 1902	German Chemist Kurt Alder (Co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis) was born.
10 July 1920	American Physicist Owen Chamberlain (Co- winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub atomic antiparticle) was born
11 July	World Population Day. (by U.N.)
12 July 1928	American Chemist Elias James Corey (Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis, specially retrosynthetic analysis ) was born.
12 July 1935	Japanese Biochemist Satoshi Omura (Co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine fortheir discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites) was born.
14 July 1965	The 'Mariner 4' flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
15 July 1921	American Chemist Robert Bruce Merrifield (Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis ) was born.
16 July 1888	Dutch Physicist Fritz Zernike (Winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the phase- contrast microscope ) was born.
18 July 1853	Dutch Physicist Hendrik Lorentz (Co- winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect) was born.
19 July 1938	Indian astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar was born.
19 July 1945	Scottish Chemist/Physicist Richard Henderson (Co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo- electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution) was born.
21 July 1969	Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
24 July 1969	Successful landing of “Appolo-11” in the pacific Ocean.
25 July 1922	German Chemist John B. Goodenough (Co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries) was born.
25 July 1956	American Chemical Engineer Frances H. Arnold (Co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direacted evolution of enzymes) was born.
28 July 1925	American Scientist Baruch S. Blumberg (Co-winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for his work on the Hepatitis B virus) was born.
29 July 1898	American Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi (Winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance) was born.
30 July 1947	French Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinouesi (Co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus) was born.
31 July 1918	American Chemist Paul D. Boyer (Co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate) was born.

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