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12/01/2023

National Youth Day, also known as Vivekananda Jayanti, is celebrated on 12 January, being the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984 the Government of India declared this day as National Youth Day and since 1985 the event is celebrated in India every year.

23/08/2022

04/08/2022

Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar which straddles the border between Nalgonda district in Telangana and Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh

22/07/2022

India's second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22nd July 2019 from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. The Orbiter which was injected into a lunar orbit on 2nd Sept 2019, carries 8 experiments to address many open questions on lunar science.

11/05/2022

Richard Feynman, in full Richard Phillips Feynman, (born May 11, 1918, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 15, 1988, Los Angeles, California), American theoretical physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era

07/04/2022

25/03/2022

'The founder of the Green Revolution' - Norman Borlaug - was born in 1914 and is credited with saving millions from mass starvation.
'The founder of the Green Revolution' and the only agricultural scientist that has received a Nobel Peace Prize, Norman Borlaug is credited with saving millions from mass starvation. He played a central role in teaching the world to feed itself. https://t.co/lavnH2lRow

“'The founder of the Green Revolution' and the only agricultural scientist that has received a Nobel Peace Prize, Norman Borlaug is credited with saving millions from mass starvation. He played a central role in teaching the world to feed itself.”

13/03/2022

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08/03/2022

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06/03/2022

in 1869 Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) first presented his periodic table, an arrangement of chemical elements in order of increasing atomic number. Today there are 118 elements in the table. He was nominated for a in 1906.

18/02/2022

Pluto day 18 February

24/01/2022

Daughters are special; there is no doubt

24/01/2022

12/01/2022

National Youth Day, also known as Vivekananda Jayanti, is celebrated on 12 January, being the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.

09/01/2022

Har Gobind Khorana, (born January 9, 1922?, Raipur, India [now Raipur, Pakistan]—died November 9, 2011, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.), Indian-born American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.

Born: January 9, 1922? Raipur India
Died: November 9, 2011 Concord Massachusetts
Awards And Honors: National Medal of Science (1987) Nobel Prize (1968)
Subjects Of Study: chemical synthesis nucleic acid translation
Khorana was born into a poor family and attended the University of the Punjab at Lahore, India (now in Pakistan), and the University of Liverpool, England, on government scholarships. He obtained a Ph.D. at Liverpool in 1948. He began research on nucleic acids during a fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1951) under Sir Alexander Todd. He held fellowships and professorships in Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Canada at the University of British Columbia (1952–59), and in the United States at the University of Wisconsin (1960–70). In 1966 Khorana became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and in 1971 he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained until he retired in 2007.

Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana.
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In the 1960s Khorana confirmed Nirenberg’s findings that the way

09/01/2022

China’s Lunar Lander Detects Moon Water Up-Close in Historic First.
China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander has found the first-ever on-site evidence of water on the Moon’s surface. Photos shot by the probe show the Moon rock and surrounding lunar soil that the water was detected in

08/01/2022

Born: 9 January 1927, Maroda
Sunderlal Bahuguna was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife

07/01/2022

Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. Both of his parents, Frank and Isobel, worked in medicine

07/01/2022

Nikola Tesla

He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity ...

Died: 7 January 1943 (aged 86); New York City, New York, U.S

Born: 10 July 1856; Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia

04/01/2022

Louis Braille was a French educator and inventor of a reading and writing system for use by people who are visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as braille.
Born: 4 January 1809, Coupvray, France
Died: 6 January 1852, Paris, France

01/01/2022

Satyendra Nath Bose, (born January 1, 1894, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died February 4, 1974, Calcutta), Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation (see Bose-Einstein statistics)🇮🇳🇮🇳

31/12/2021

Happy New Year 💐

28/12/2021

26/12/2021

The Curies informed the l'Académie des Sciences in 1898 that they had demonstrated strong grounds for having come upon an additional very active substance that behaved chemically almost like pure barium. They suggested the name of radium for the new element.

22/12/2021

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Date of birth
22 December 1887
The man who know about infinity
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21/12/2021

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre
Died: 16 May 1830 (aged 62); Paris, Kingdom of France
Born: 21 March 1768; Auxerre, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (now in Yonne, France)

17/12/2021

father's of electron
Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburb of Manchester on December 18, 1856.
He received the Nobel Prize for in 1906 and was knighted in 1908

16/12/2021

Johann Wilhelm Ritter, (born December 16, 1776, Samitz bei Haynau, Silesia [now Zamienice, Poland]—died January 23, 1810, Munich), German physicist who discovered the ultraviolet region of the spectrum and thus helped broaden humanity's view beyond the narrow region of visible light to encompass the entire ..

15/12/2021

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07/12/2021

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20/11/2021

13/11/2021

Argon, the first noble gas in the periodic table to be isolated, was named after the greek word for lazy after it was found to be totally unreactive. Lord Rayleigh, born , and William Ramsay earned the 1904 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry respectively for its discovery.

08/11/2021

in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays.

The first X-ray image he took was of his wife Bertha's hand. The discovery of X-rays earned Röntgen the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

08/11/2021

Dr. Kamal Ranadive’s 104th BirthdayToday’s celebrates Indian cell biologist Dr. Kamal Ranadive, who is best known for her groundbreaking cancer research and devotion to creating a more equitable society through science and education.