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Science Facts - August Month

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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.
1 August 1945	American Physicist Douglas D. Osheroff (Co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in helium -3) was born.
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.
7 August 1946	American Physicist John C. Mather (Co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwavw background radiation) was born.
7 August 1948	American Immunologist James P. Allison (Co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation) was born.
8 August 1901	Ernest Lawrence (Inventor of Cyclotron) was born.
8 August 1931	British Physicist Sir Roger Penrose (Co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity) 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.
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.
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 his discovery of the wave nature of electrons) 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 photographically based on the phenomenon of interference) was born.
18 August 1932	French Virologist Luc Montagnier (Co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus) was born.
20 August 1779	Swedish Chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius (Credited with discovering the chemical elements cerium and selenium and with being the first to isolate silicon, thorium and zirconium) was born.
23 August 1940	American Chemist Thomas A. Steitz (Co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome) was born.
25 August 1900	German Physician and biochemist Hans Adolf Krebs (Co-winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology / 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.
27 August 1928	Japanese Chemist Osamu Shimomura (Co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein "GFP") was born.
29 August 1943	Canadian Physicist Arthur B. McDonald (Co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass) was born.
30 August 1852	Dutch Physical and Organic Chemist Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff (The first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry) was born.

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