Science Facts
Science Facts - April Month
| 1 April 1826 | Samuel Morey Patents the internal combustion engine. |
| 1 April 1865 | Austrian -born chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Made research in colloids) was born. |
| 1April 1976 | Jovian - Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the Astronomer Patrick Moor |
| 2 April | World Autism Awareness Day. (UN) |
| 3 April 1973 | The first portable cell phone call was made in New York City, United States. |
| 3 April 1984 | Indian Astronaut Mr.Rakesh Sharma travelled into the Space. |
| 5 April 1929 | Norwegian Physicist Ivar Giaever (Co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids) was born. |
| 6 April 1911 | German Biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (Made discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol with Konrad Bloch) was born. |
| 6 April 1920 | American Biochemist Edmond H. Fischer was born. |
| 6 April 1949 | German -born Physicist Horst Ludwig Stormer (Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations) was born. |
| 6 April 1965 | Launch of Early Bird, the first Communications Satellite to be placed in Geosynchronous Orbit. |
| 8 April 1911 | American Chemist Melvin Calvin (Discoverer of Calvin Cycle) was born. |
| 10 April 1927 | American Scientist Marshall Warren Nirenberg was born |
| 11April 1905 | Albert Einstein revealed Special Theory of Relativity (special relativity ) |
| 12 April | International Day of Human Space Flight (UN) |
| 12 April 1955 | The Polio Vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective. |
| 12 April 1961 | First Russian Astronaut Yuri Gagarin traveled into Space. |
| 15 April 1874 | German Physicist Johannes Stark (Discoverer of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric field ) was born. |
| 16 April 1728 | Scottish Chemist Joseph Black (Known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat/ specific heat. and carbon dioxide) was born. |
| 18 April 1905 | American Scientist George H. Hitchings (Co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment) was born. |
| 20 April 1927 | Swiss physicist Karl Alexander Muller (Worked for superconductivity in ceramic materials) was born. |
| 22 April | International Earth Day. |
| 22 April 1909 | Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (Co-discoverer of nerve growth factor NGF) was born. |
| 23 April 1858 | German Physicist, Max Planck (who wrote the Planck Constant) was born |
| 25 April | World Malaria Day (WHO) |
U.N. - United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization, UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization