September Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same August birthday as you. The ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
September 11
- 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann noted German professor of mineralogy and physics who was an early researcher of optics.
- 1816 - Carl Zeiss noted German scientist and optician known for the lens manufacturing company he founded, called Carl Zeiss.
- 1877 - Feliks Dzjerzjinski was the Lithuanian founder of the KGB
- 1894 - Carl Shipp Marvel was an American polymer chemist who worked with polybenzimidazoles, temperature-resistant polymers. Marvel won the first ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in 1964, the Priestley Medal in 1956, and the Perkin Medal in 1965.
September 12
- 1818 - Richard Gatling was the American inventor of a hand-cranked machine gun.
- 1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie was the daughter of Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the synthesis of new radioactive elements.
September 13
- 1755 - Oliver Evans invented a high-pressure steam engine
- 1857 - Milton S Hershey was a famous chocolate manufacturer
- 1886 - Sir Robert Robinson won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947 for his researches in organic chemistry. He worked for the Shell Chemical Company.
- 1887 - Leopold Ruzicka won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his studies of natural substances. He invented many of the scents for various perfumes.
September 14
- 1698 - Charles Francois de Cisternay DuFay was a French chemist who studied the force of repulsion and noted that most things could be electrified just by rubbing them, and that materials conduct better when wet.
- 1849 - Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist (Pavlovian Responses) who won the Nobel prize in 1904
- 1887 - Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and atomic bomb scientist
September 15
- 1852 - Jan Matzeliger invented a shoe lacing machine
- 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann was the first physicist to predict quarks
September 16
- 1893 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1937 for discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.
September 17
- 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a pioneer in rocket and space research
- 1882 - Anton H Blaauw was a Dutch botanist who wrote the Perception of Light
September 18
- 1907 - Edwin M. McMillian won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 for discovering plutonium. He also had the idea for "phase stability" which led to the development of the synchroton and synchro-cyclotron.
September 19
- 1902 - James Van Alen invented the Simplified Scoring System for tennis
September 20
- 1842 - James Dewar was a British chemist and physicist who invented the Dewar flask or thermos (1892) and co-invented cordite (1889), a smokeless gunpowder.
