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This Month in History
February 1, 1905: Emilio Gino Segrè (born Feb. 1, 1905), born in Tivoli, Rome, was an American physicist. He created atoms from man-made elements, and he also discovered the antiproton, which is an antiparticple that has the same mass as a proton but an opposite electrical charge. Segrè co-won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 for discoverng the antiproton.
February 1, 1905: LLoyd Viel Berkner (born Feb. 1, 1905) was a U.S. physicist and radio engineer. He first measured the height and density of the ionosphere of the Earth's atmosphere, and later developed radar systems and radio navigation beacons.
February 1, 1896: Alfonso Caso y Andrade (born Feb. 1, 1896), a Mexican archeologist and governent official, studied the Oaxacan culture. He excavated the Tomb of Seven at Monte Alban and authored many books. His most notable book was "Kings and Kingdoms of the Mixteca".
February 1, 1859: Lydia M. DeWitt (born Feb. 1, 1859), an American experimental pathologist, researched chemotherapy of tuberculosis. She performed her research on animals with hopes of developing an anti-tuberculosis drug. Additionally, DeWitt supported women in research and created the Women's Research Club at The University of Michigan.
February 1, 1844: Eduard Adolf Strasburger (born Feb.1, 1844), a German plant cytologist, created the term "cytoplasm" and "nucleoplasm".
February 1, 1844: G. Stanley Hall (born Feb. 1, 1844), an American psychologist, developed child psychology and educational psychology. He is credited with the phrase "Storm and Stress" to describe adolescent conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and risky behavior. Hall founded the American Journal of Psychology.
February 1, 1843: Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (born Feb. 1, 1843), an English, naval architect and engineer, built the first modern torpedo boat for the Royal Navy.
February 1, 1972: HP introduced the first scientific hand-held calculator. It cost $395.
February 1, 1959: Texas Instruments developed the integrated circuit.
February 1, 1951: The first X-ray moving pictures were demonstrated.
February 1, 1944: DNA was found to be the hereditary agent in a virus. This was found while researching pneumococcus and it's role in pneumonia.
February 1, 1911: This was the first time fingerprint evidence was used in court. Thomas Jennings was found guilty and executed as a result of fingerprint evidence.
February 1, 1851: Gail Bordon invented evaporated milk.
February 1, 1838: Engineer John Ericsson received a patent for the screw propellor.
February 1, 1820: Engineer Canvass White received a patent for hydraulic cement. He used this to water-proof mortar joints while building the Erie Canal.
February 1, 2009: February is Black History Month
February 2, 1910: Jacques Monod, born on february 2, 1910, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
February 3, 1772: Jean-Etienne-Dominique Esquirol, born February 3, 1772. He authored the book “Des maladies mentales” (1838), the first modern textbook of psychiatry. He gave the first modern description of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in 1838, which he suspected was rooted in a physical problem in the brain.
February 4, 1936: February 4th 1936 – John Jacob Livingood bombarded bismuth with deuterons to create the isotope 210 Bi, creating the first synthesis of a radioactive substance.
February 5, 1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, born on February 5, 1914, won Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
February 8, 1865: Gregor Mendel gave his first public speech about genetics.
February 9, 1910: French Physiologist Jacque Monod (born Feb. 9, 1910) was a Nobel Prize winner in genetics.
February 10, 1897: John F. Enders, born on February 10, 1897, won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
February 12, 1809: Charles Darwin, the English naturalist (born Feb. 12.1809) developed the concept of natural selection.
February 19, 1956: Roderick MacKinnon, born on February 19, 1956, won a Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
February 20, 1937: Robert Huber, born on February 20, 1937, won a Nobel Prize for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
February 20, 1884: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was born on February 20, 1844. He developed a theory that connected the properties and behavior of atoms and molecules. He further developed a kinetic theory of gases and the Stefan-Boltzmann law concerning a relationship between the temperature of a body and the radiation it emits.
February 21, 1895: Henrik Carl Peter Dam, born February 21, 1895, won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of vitamin K.
February 22, 1914: Renato Dulbecco – born February 22 1914. He was a virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for his discovery concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
February 22, 1879: Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted – born February 22, 1879. He was a physical chemist, and stated that acids are regonized by an excess of H+ ions and bases have an excess of OH- ions.
February 22, 1936: J. Michael Bishop, born on February 22, 1936, won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
February 27, 1926: David Hubel, born on February 27, 1926, won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.
February 28, 1948: Steven Chu, born February 28, 1948, won a Nobel Prize for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
February 28, 1901: Linus Pauling (born Feb. 28, 1901), discovered the nature of the peptide bond and the alpha helix.
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