May 12 in Physics History: Birthdays, Deaths & Discoveries

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May 12 In Physics History

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May 12 In Physics History - Births – Physicists born on May 12

William Francis Giauque (12 May 1895 - 28 Mar 1982)

He was a Canadian-American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his achievements in the field of chemical thermodynamics and his work on the behavior of matter at very low temperatures, in 1949. He discovered adiabatic demagnetization as a means to achieve temperatures close to absolute zero. He studied and researched thermodynamics for most of his life and also developed a large body of evidence for the validity of the third law of thermodynamics.

Maurice Ewing (12 May 1906 - 4 May 1974)

He was an American geologist and geophysicist who worked in a range of subjects and made contributions to earthquake seismology, sedimentology, marine acoustics, and tectonics. He used seismic exploration methods in the oceans. He did studies of Earth’s free oscillations and explained the dispersion of sound in seawater. He also greatly renovated the bathythermograph, Sonar, hydrophones, and deep-sea cameras.

May 12 In Physics History - Deaths – Physicists died on May 12

Gerbert d'Aurillac (945 - 12 May 1003)

He was a French scholar who popularised the topics of astronomy and mechanics so that the public would appreciate the benefits of science. He was one of the earliest learned men in his time. He also built clocks, astronomical instruments, and the hydraulic organ. He became the first French pope and was recognized as the most important of his century.

Edme Mariotte (1620 -12 May 1684)

He was a French physicist and plant physiologist who discovered the famous Boyle’s law. Independent of Robert Boyle, he discovered this law that states that the volume of a gas varies inversely with its pressure. He coined the term barometer and stated Boyle’s law in his “Discourse on the Nature of Air” in 1676.

Sir William Huggins (7 Feb 1824 - 12 May 1910)

He was an English astronomer who made structural observations of Nova in 1866. He measured the star’s radial velocity for the very first time. He explored the spectra of stars, nebula, and comets and interpreted their chemical composition. He showed that some nebulae are a cluster of stars whereas some nebulae are uniformly gaseous. He also built his private observatory at Tulse hill when he was 30 years old.

May 12 In Physics History - Events – Physics Events of May 12

Alfred Wegener Body

A search party in Greenland found the frozen body of Alfred Wegener in 1931, on this day. He had been on his fourth expedition since 1906 to study the scrap and its climate. He was a German meteorologist and geophysicist. He concluded that the two continents, South America and Africa were once joined.

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May 12 in Physics History: Birthdays, Deaths & Discoveries