31 July Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Birthday

31 Jul 1882    Herbert E. Ives Herbert Eugene Ives - American physicist - Inventor of transmission of mechanical video pictures.

31 Jul 1918  Paul D. Boyer - American biochemist- He together with John E. Walker, received half the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the work explaining the enzymatic process involved in the production of the energy-storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP)[How the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of ATP].

31 July 1923 Stephanie Kwolek - inventor of Kevlar

31 July 1944 Robert C. Merton - Nobel Laureate

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Important Events

1874, the Centennial of Chemistry in the U.S. was celebrated by chemists meeting at Northumberland, Pa

1971, Dave Scott drove a vehicle on the Moon - the battery-powered Lunar Rover (LRV) - as part of the Apollo 15 mission

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Management Revision Articles

Managing Change in Improvement Projects - Comfort Zone to Comfort Zone
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