Chemistry Portfolio McAbee [Note: when only year is know it is set to January 1st - - - -]
By MiniMac
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Gutenberg's press could produce books quickly and with relatively little effort, bookmaking became much less expensive, allowing more people to buy reading material.
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The Discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus
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The Catholic Reformation is the period of change in the Catholic Church initiated by the Protestants. Through the Council of Trent, conservative and liberal steps are taken to keep Catholic followers from joining the new found faiths.
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chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculano da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.
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Well known for his work with gases including discovery of oxygen, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide
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The signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Credited with the Law of Conservation of Mass: In a chemical reaction matter is neither created nor destroyed.
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Built the first electrochemical cell and battery.
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Faraday discovered the two laws of electrochemistry: the amount of chemical change or decomposition is exactly proportional to the quantity of electricity that passes in solution; and the amounts of different substances deposited or dissolved by the same quantity of electricity are proportional to their chemical equivalent weights.
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A physicist that is credited for finding the proton, and the discoverer of anode rays.
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Daltonian atomitism worked on the Law of Multiple Proportions.
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The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.
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Louis Pasteur And Claude Bernard Complete The First Pasteurization Test.l
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified. Slavery is abolished.
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Discovered that mixing nitroglycerine with silica would turn the liquid into a malleable paste, called dynamite.
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The day the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the US
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Marconi took his radio apparatus to England and later that year was granted the world's first patent for a system of wireless telegraphy.
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Radioactivity
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Found the negetivley charged particle called the electron.
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Known for her work with Radioactivity that unfortunately caused her death.
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Used alpha particles to find the nucleus and determine that it has a mostly positive charge.
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The originator of the quantum theory of energy, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1918
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Discovered new electron levels also well known for the Bohr Model.
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Developed a way to calculate atom's size
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Applied X-Ray spectra to the atomic model
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Measured the charge of Electrons.
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The armed workers known as Red Guards and the other revolutionary groups moved on the night of Nov. 6-7 under the orders of the Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee. These forces seized post and telegraph offices, electric works, railroad stations, and the state bank. Once the shot rang out from the Battleship Aurora, the thousands of people in the Red Guard stormed the Winter Palace.
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The day that the Treaty of Versailles was signed
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Preformed experiments that Isolated Insulin.
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Discovered the wave nature of electrons.
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Developed Schrodinger Equation based off of wave mechanics
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The first Successful demonstration of the television.
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Neoprene and nylon
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Discovered a neutral particle in the atom called a neutron.
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Worked with Quantum Mechanics and won the 1932 Nobel Peace Prize
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.
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Szilard and Enrico Fermi were successful in creating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Although he worked on the atomuic bomb he was very hesitant to use it and urged the U.S. not to use it on moral grounds
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The day the first mobile cell phone call was made in St.Louis, Mo.
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The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site.
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Spent seven years at Cetus Corporation outside of San Francisco, California, during which he invented the polymerase chain reaction.
