1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals was patented
Birthdays
Nobel Prize Winners
1895 William Francis Giauque Chemistry
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1949/giauque-facts.html
1910 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chemistry - Determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. Molecular structure of Pencillin, B12 etc.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-facts.html
Others
1914 - Thomas H. Carroll II
Miscellaneous News
2014 Google showed a doodle on 12 May 2014 to honor Dorothy Hodgkin
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/dorothy-hodgkin-google-doodle-celebrates-114th-birthday-of-nobel-prizewinning-british-chemist-9353147.html
A joint New Zealand-German research team has discovered a huge network of frozen methane and methane gas in sediments and in the ocean near New Zealand’s east coast.
http://www.niwa.co.nz/news/joint-new-zealand-german-3d-survey-reveals-massive-seabed-gas-hydrate-and-methane-system
2013 Tech News 12 May 2014
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