Also on This Day in History October 1
Discover what happened on October 1 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, October 1
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1939
George R. Carruthers
Black-American astrophysicist who was the principal inventor of a new space camera to measure ultraviolet light which can be used to identify interstellar atoms and molecules.
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1867
Wilder Dwight Bancroft
American physical chemist who introduced a number of thermodynamic and colloid-chemical concepts into American physicochemistry.
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1904
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-British nuclear physicist, born in Vienna, who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, described the division of neutron-bombarded uranium into lighter elements.
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1842
Charles Cros
Charles Cros was a French inventor and poet whose work in several fields foreshadowed or paralleled important developments.
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1881
William E. Boeing
William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who began a lumber business in 1902.
Deaths on This Day, October 1
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1945
Walter Bradford Cannon
American physiologist and neurologist who was the first to use X-rays in physiological studies.
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1969
Thomas Francis Jr.
American physician, physician, virologist and epidemiologist who was the first in the U.S. to isolate the virus influenza A (1934) and showed that there are other strains, such as influenza B (1940).
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1990
John Stewart Bell II
Northern Irish physicist who has been described as breathing “new and exciting life into the foundations of quantum theory.”
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1953
Edwin Joseph Cohn
American biochemist who helped develop the methods of cold ethanol blood fractionation (the separation of plasma proteins into fractions).
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1974
Spyridon Marinatos
Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was a Greek archaeologist whose most notable discovery was the site of an ancient port city on the island of Thera, in the southern Aegean Sea.