October Historical Events In Spectroscopy

by Leopold May, Catholic University

• October 1, 1940 - Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., was incorporated on this date.
• October 4 1957 - Sputnik I, first artificial earth satellite, launched by USSR.
• October 7, 1885 - The birthday of Niels Bohr who proposed the "solar system" model of atom to explain atomic spectra in 1913. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
• October 9, 1879 - Max von Laue, a researcher in x-rays and crystal structure, was born on this date. He suggested crystals diffract x-rays in 1912 and received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1914.
• October 10, 1920 - Richard C. Lord, Jr., deceased Honorary Member of SAS, was born on this day. He did research in infrared spectroscopy.
• October 21, 1833 - The birthday of Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prizes.
• October 23, 1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, who developed theories of chemical bond and valency, was born on this day.
• October 23, 1999 - Mole Day, 6.02 a.m. through 6.02 p.m. (Mole Times); Mole Moment: 50.453 s after 6:42 p.m. Listen to the mole song here.

Return to the Baltimore-Washington SAS Home Page