December Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same December birthday as you. The twelvth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
December 11
December 12
- 1833 - Matthias Hohner was the German manufacturer of harmonicas
- 1866 - Swiss chemist, Alfred Werner won the Nobel Prize in 1913
December 13
- 1816 - Eric Werner von Siemens was a German artillery officer and inventor of the electric elevator.
December 14
- 1909 - Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American molecular geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958
December 15
- 1832 - French engineer, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel tower
- 1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel was the scientist who discovered radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize in 1903
- 1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea was an auto inventor who built the first auto in the U.S.
- 1863 - Arthur D Little was an American chemist who invented rayon
- 1882 - Helena Rubinstein was an noted American cosmetic manufacturer
- 1916 - Maurice Wilkins was an English physicist who researched DNA and won the Nobel Prize in 1962
December 16
- 1882 - German physicist, Walther Meissner discovered the Meissner effect
- 1890 - Harlan Sanders invented Kentucky Fried Chicken
- 1917 - English science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke was also an inventor and wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey'
December 17
- 1778 - English chemist, Hunphry Davy
- 1797 - Joseph Henry was an American inventor and pioneer of electromagnetism
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby was the inventor of the carbon-14 "atomic clock", and won the Nobel Prize in 1960.
December 18
- 1856 - English physicist, Joseph John Thomson discovered the electron and won the Nobel Prize in 1906
- 1947 - Eddie Antar founded the Crazy Eddie Electronics Store
December 19
- 1813 - Irish chemist and physicist, Thomas Andrews discovered ozone
- 1849 - Henry Clay Frick built the world's largest coke and steel operation
- 1852 - American physicist, Albert Michelson won the Nobel Prize in 1907
- 1903 - Genetecist George Snell
- 1903 - England, biologist.Cyril Dean Darlington discovered hereditary mechanisms
- 1944 - Anthropologist Richard Leakey
- 1961 - American physicist, Eric Allin Cornell
December 20
- 1805 - Thomas Graham founded colloid chemistry
- 1868 - Industrialist, Harvey S Firestone founded Firestone Tires
