June and July Historical Events In Spectroscopy

by Leopold May, Catholic University

• June 6, 1943 - Richard E. Smalley, who did research in supersonic beam laser spectroscopy, was born on this day. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 with R.F. Curl and H. W. Kroto.
• June 7, 1896 - Robert Sanderson Milliken, who was born on this day, did research in molecular orbital and electronic structure of molecules for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966.
• June 8, 1918 - John D. Roberts applied nuclear magnetic resonance to organic chemistry and did research on molecular orbital calculations. This was his birthday.
• June 12, 1890 - This is the birthday of Wallace R. Brode. He is a Honorary member of SAS and an authority on chemical spectroscopy.
• June 18, 1918 - Jerome Karle who developed methods for the determination of crystal structures with x-rays, was born on this day. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert A. Hauptman in 1985.
• June 18-22, 1962 - First National Meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the International Conference on Spectroscopy, 1962, and the Xth Colloquium Spectroscopium Internationale, College Park, MD
• June 25, 1864 - The birthday of Walther H. Nernst, who devised the source used in IR and the Nernst equation relating voltage of the half-cell to concentration. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 for the discovery of 3rd Law of Thermodynamics.
• July 1, 1959 - First nuclear rocket engine was successfully tested on this day
• July 2, 1923 - Naval Research Laboratory founded on this day as the Naval Experimental and Research Laboratory.
• July 5, 1907 - American Cyanamid Company organized on this day.
• July 10, 1843 - William deW. Abney, a researcher in photographic chemistry, color photography and printing, was born on this date.
• July 12, 1854 - This is the birthdate of George Eastman, who invented the Kodak film, the Kodak camera in1888, daylight loading film in 1891, and in 1928, color film, and founded the Eastman Kodak Company.
• July 13, 1888 - William F. Meggers, a deceased Honorary Member of SAS, was born on this day. He was regarded by some as the Dean of American Spectroscopists and was a pioneer in spectrochemistry.
• July 16, 1945 - Explosion of first atomic bomb took place at Trinity Site, Alamogordo Air Force Base, New Mexico, on this day in 1945.
• July 19, 1802 - On this day, EleuthŠre I.Dupont began construction in 1802, of a gunpowder factory that became E. I. DuPont de Neumours.
• July 23, 1880 - Emma P. Carr, researcher on ultraviolet spectra of hydrocarbons, was born on this day.She was the first recipient of the ACS's Francis Garvan Medal in 1937.
• July 24, 1862 - William H. Bragg, researcher in x-rays & crystalstructure, was born on this day. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1915 with his son, W. Lawrence Bragg.
• July 31, 1825 - This is the birthday of Wilhelm Beer who discovered that absorption of light is related to amount and length of absorbing material(Beer's Law).

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