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Science Facts - May Month

1 May 1852 Spanish histologist. neuroscientist Santiago Ramony Cajal (Co-winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology /Medicine in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system) was born.
1 May 1930 The Planet Pluto is officially named.
3  May International Energy Day.
3 May 1892 English Physicist George Paget Thomson (Recognised for discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction) was born.
3 May 1902 French Physicist Alfred Kastler (Winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian Resonance in atoms) was born.
5 May 1961 The first piloted Mercury space craft "Freedom – 7" launched by America.
5 May 1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub- orbital flight of 15 minutes on the MR-3 mission.
6 May 1871 French Chemist Victor Grignard (Discoverer of the Grignard Reagent and Grignard Reaction) was born.
7 May 1939 Canadian born Molecular Biologist Sidney Altman (Worked on the catalytic properties of RNA) was born.
7 May 1952 The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
8 May 1902 French Microbiologist Andre Michael Lwoff (Co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis) was born.
8  May 1947 American Biologist H. Robert Horvitz (Co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death) was born.
11 May 1998 India conducted nuclear tests at the Pokhran range in Rajasthan Desert.
13 May 1857 Sir Ronald Ross (Inventor of medicine for Malaria) was born.
15 May 1859 French Physicist Pierre Curie (A pioneer in Crystallography, Magnetism, Piezoelectricity and Radioactivity) was born.
17 May 1749 Sir Edward Anthony Jenner (Inventor of smallpox vaccine) was born.
18 May World AIDS Vaccine Day.
19 May 1910 Halley’s Comet brushes the Earth with its tail.
19 May 1971 Soviet Union had sent "Mars-2" for journey to Planet Mars which was crashed at Mars's Land on 27 Nov,1971.
21 May 1860 Dutch Inventor William Einthoven ( Inventor of the first practical electrocardiograph ECG ) was born.
25 May 1865 Dutch Physicist Pieter Zeeman (Co-winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Zeeman effect) was born.
30 May 1971 America launched space craft "Mariner – 9" to Planet Mars.
31 May World No Tobacco Day (by U.N.).
U.N. – United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization and UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization