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4 days ago · Klaproth used the Latin tellus (earth) in his naming of tellurium (1798), which had been discovered by the Austrian geologist Franz Joseph Muller (1740–1825) in 1782. In 1803 he discovered cerium oxide, named for the newly discovered asteroid, Ceres.
- 1995 – Eugene Paul Wigner died.
- 1931 – Martinus Willem Beijerinck died.
- 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose Was born.
- 1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz died.
- 1801 – Asteroid Ceres discovered.
Wigner was an Austrian-American physicist who was awarded half the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to quantum mechanics. He developed the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics where a physical system’s properties may be unchanged when a transformation is applied.
Beijerinck was a Dutch biologist who coined the word virus to describe the cause of the tobacco mosaic disease. He identified the disease was caused by an agent that was much smaller than a bacterium. He also discovered the process of nitrogen fixation and bacterial sulfate reduction where bacteria use sulfates instead of oxygen.
Bose was an Indian mathematical physicist who laid much of the groundwork of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, particularly the Bose-Einstein statistics and the Bose-Einstein condensate. The boson particle was given his name in his honor by Paul Dirac.
Hertz was a German physicist who first demonstrated a device to transmit and receive radio waves. The unit of frequency, Hertz was named after him. He also showed charged bodies slowly lose their charge when exposed to ultraviolet light which was later explained by the photoelectric effect.
The first asteroid was discovered by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi. He named his discovery Ceres after the Roman goddess of the harvest and motherly love. The asteroid was discovered to conform with the Titus-Bode law that suggested a planet should appear between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Soon, other asteroids would be discovered in this...
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily, and announced as a new planet.
Berzelius named the new element cerium in honor of the asteroid Ceres, which was discovered two years earlier by Giuseppe Piazzi.
Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801.
Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801.
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Klaproth used the Latin tellus (earth) in his naming of tellurium (1798), which had been discovered by the Austrian geologist Franz Joseph Muller (1740-1825) in 1782. In 1803 he discovered cerium oxide, named for the newly discovered asteroid, Ceres.
