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Science Facts - November Month

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1 November 1950	American Physicist Robert B. Laughlin (Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect) was born.
3 November 1893	American Biochemist Adward Adelbert Doisy (Co- winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of vitamin K) was born.
5 November 1854	French Chemist Paul Sabatier (Co- winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals) was born.
7 November1867	Polish Chemist and Physicist Maria Sklodowska- Curie (Was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields) was born.
8 November1895	While experimenting with the electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovered the X-ray.
9 November1897	British Chemist Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (Co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their study of extremely fast chemical reactions) was born.
9 November 1921	Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect.
10 November 1918	German Chemist Ernst Otto Fischer (Co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on Organometallic Compounds) was born.
12 November 1842	English Physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (Winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of Argon in connection with these studies) was born.
14 November 1863	Flemish- American Chemist Leo Hendrik Beakeland (Inventor of the first Synthetic Plastic, Bakelite) was born.
17 November 1902	Hungarian Physicist Eugene Wigner (Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles) was born.
17 November 1922	American Biochemist Stanley Cohen (Co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor) was born.
18 November 1897	British Physicist Patrick Blackett (Winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigation of cosmic rays using his invention of the counter- controlled cloud chamber) was born.
18 November 1906	American Scientist George Wald (Co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in the field of vision) was born.
19 November 1912	Romanian Cell Biologist George Emil Palade (Co-winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the functional organization of the cell that were seminal events in the development of modern cell biology) was born.
19 November 1936	Taiwanese born Chemist Yuan T. Lee (Co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes) was born.
19 November 1998	The first module of the International Space Station , Zarya, was launched.
20 November 1886	Austrian Zoologist Karl von Frisch (Co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his achievements in comparing behavioral physiology and pioneering work in communication between insects) was born.
22 November 1904	French Physicist Louis Neel (Co-winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids) was born.
23 November 1837	Dutch Physicist Johannes Diderk van der Waals (Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids) was born.
28 November 1950	American Physicist Russell Alan Hulse (Co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation) was born.

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