July in Science

 

July in Science

July 1, 1646 Differential & Integral Calculus

Leibniz, was born in Germany. Leibniz made major contributions to Physics and Mathematics( Differential & Integral Calculus)

July 1, 1961 Einstein’s Special theory of relativity

Albert Einstein’s famous work ‘Special theory of relativity” was published.

July 3, 1886 Benz - car

Karl Benz(Germany) drove world’s first automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine. It was a three wheeler car.

July 3, 1928 First Colour TV

World’s first Colour TV was demonstrated by John Logie Baird.

July3, 1929 Dunlop

Foam rubber was developed at Dunlop Laboratory in UK.

July 5, 1996 First cloned sheep

Dolly, the first cloned sheep was born in Scotland.

July 6, 1885 Rabies medicine

Louis Pasteur (France) injected the first 14 daily doses of anti-rabies vaccine.

July 9, 1856 Avogadro- Law of Chemistry

Avogadro( Italy) who was the first scientist to distinguish between atoms and molecules, died.

July 14, 1867 Dynamite

Dynamite was first demonstrated by Alfred Nobel(Sweden).

July 16, 1929 ICAR

ICAR, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research was set up.

July 16, 1945 First atomic bomb

The first atomic bomb (testing) was exploded in USA.

July 18, 1898 Polonium

Polonium (At no 84) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre.

July 21, 1969 First men on moon

Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

July 22,1822 Father of Genetics

The father of Genetics, Gregor Mendal was born in Austria.

July 24, 1911IISC, Bangalore.

The Indian Institute of Science(IISC) stared functioning with departments of General and Applied Chemistry and Electro technology.

July 25, 1978 First test-tube baby

The world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown was born in England.

July 25, 1984 First woman in space

Svetlana Savitskaya (Russia) became the first woman to walk in space.

July 27, 1987 Salim Ali

Salim Ali, the eminent ornithologist of India, died in Mumbai.