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Science Facts - February Month

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3 February 1966	The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the moon.
4 February 1896	German Physicist Friedrich Hund (Known for his work on atoms and molecules) was born.
7 February 1979	Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
8 February 1834	Russian Chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (Best known for formulating the periodic law) was born.
9 February 1789	German inventor of the stenography Franz Xaver Gabelsberger was born.
9 February 1910	French Biochemist Jacques Monod (Co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis) was born.
11 February 1808	Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel, experimentally
12 February 1777	French Chemist Bernard Courtois (Credited with first isolating iodine, making early photography possible) was born.
12 February 1804	German Physicist Heinrich Lenz (Formulated Lenz’s law in electrodynamics) was born.
13 February 1910	American Physicist and eugenicist William Shockley (Co-winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect) was born.
14 February 1869	Scottish Physicist Charles Wilson (Co-winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber) was born.
14 February 1917	American mathematician Herbert A. Hauptman (Co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures) was born.
15 February 1861	French Physicist Charles Edouard Guillaume (Winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys) was born.
15 February 1873	German Chemist Hans von Euler Chelpin (Co-winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes) was born.
17 February 1888	German Physicist Otto Stern (Winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton) was born.
19 February 1473	Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center) was born.
19 February 1859	Swedish Chemist Svante Arrhenius (Winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation) was born.
21 February 1895	Danish Biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam (Co-winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for his discovery of Vitamin K) was born.
21 February 1953	Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
22 February 1857	German Physicist Heinrich Hertz (First conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves) was born.
26 February 1903	Italian Chemist Giulio Natta (Co- winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on high density polymers) was born.
26 February 1946	Egyptian Chemist Ahmed H. Zewail (Known as the father of femtochemistry) was born.
27 February 1942	American Chemist Robert H. Grubbs (Co- winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis) was born.
28 February 1935	Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers.

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