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Science Facts - December Month

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1 December 1925	American Scientist Martin Rodbell (Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discovery of G- proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells) was born.
3 December 1900	Austrian-German Biochemist Richard Kuhn (Winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on carotenoids and vitamins ) was born.
3 December 1933	Dutch Chemist Paul J. Crutzen (Co- winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone) was born.
4 December 1908	American bacteriologist Alfred Hershey (Co-winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure) was born.
5 December 1901	German Physicist Werner Heisenberg (Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics) was born.
5 December 1903	English Physicist Cecil Frank Powell (Winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method) was born.
8 December 1947	American Chemist Thomas R. Cech (Co- winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA) was born.
9 December 1868	German Chemist Fritz Haber (Winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Haber- Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas) was born.
10 December 1934	American geneticist Howard Martin Temin (Co- winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for discovery of reverse transcriptase) was born.
11 December 1882	German Physicist Max Born (Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function) was born.
12 December 1866	Swiss Chemist Alfred Werner (Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes) was born.
13 December 1923	American Physicist Philip Warren Anderson ( Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers) was born.
14 December 1909	American geneticist Edward Tatum (Co-winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism) was born.
14 December 1922	Soviet Physicist Nikolay Basov (Co-winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and mesar) was born.
15 December 1852	French Physicist Henri Becquerel (Co-winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity) was born.
17 December 1908	Willard Frank Libby (Inventor of The Carbon – 14 dating method) was born.
18 December 1856	English Physicist Joseph John Thomson (Discoverer of electron) was born.
21 December 1890	American geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller (Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation) was born.
21 December 1968	Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
25 December 1906	German Physicist Ernst Ruska (Co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope) was born.
31 December 1937	Israeli biologist Avram Hershko (Co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation) was born.

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