December 17th |
1778 | English chemist Sir Humphry Davy was born in Penzance. |
1818 | John Lawrence Smith, a researcher in toxicology and mineralogical chemistry, was born. |
1832 | Michael Faraday announced the first law of electrolysis. "Chemical power like magnetic force, is in direct proportion to the absolute quantity of electricity which passes." |
1908 | Willard F. Libby, who developed carbon-14 dating, was born. |
1938 | Discovery of neutron-induced nuclear fission of uranium by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, Berlin. |