Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Clair Cameron Patterson |
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Birthdate | June 02, 1922 |
Birth Place | Mitchellville, IA |
Age (in 2024) | 102 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Chemist |
Clair Cameron Patterson is best known as Chemist who has born on June 02, 1922 in Mitchellville, IA. Currently, Clair Cameron Patterson is 102 years, 5 months and 15 days old. Clair Cameron Patterson will celebrate 103rd birthday on Monday, 2nd of June 2025. Below the countdown to Clair Cameron Patterson upcoming birthday.
His new uranium-lead dating method led to the first accurate measurement of the Earth's age, which was estimated to be 4.55 billion years. Because of his revolutionary research lead levels within the blood of Americans are reported to have dropped by up to 80% by the late 1990s.
He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
His discovery also led the finding that tetra-ethyl lead, a common additive to car fuel at the time, was toxic, and he campaigned for its removal.
He met his wife Laurie McCleary at Grinnell College, where both were students.
Like him, Vannevar Bush worked on the Manhattan Project.
Clair Cameron Patterson is 102 years old today.
Clair Cameron Patterson was born on June 02, 1922 in Mitchellville, IA.
Clair Cameron Patterson zodiac sign is Gemini.
Clair Cameron Patterson was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Clair Cameron Patterson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1953 | The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised. |
1955 | The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948. |
1962 | During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history. |
1964 | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed. |
1966 | Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. |
1967 | Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States. |
1967 | Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. |
1979 | Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. |
1983 | After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place. |
1990 | The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. |
1997 | In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later. |
2003 | Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. |
2012 | Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. |
2014 | Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh. |
2022 | Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye." |
1984 | The birth of Jack Afamasaga, New Zealand rugby league player |
1984 | The birth of Feleti Mateo, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1985 | The birth of Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1987 | The birth of Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netball player |
1987 | The birth of Yoann Huget, French rugby player |
1987 | The birth of Matthew Koma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1987 | The birth of Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer |
1987 | The birth of Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress |
1988 | The birth of Staniliya Stamenova, Bulgarian canoeist |
1989 | The birth of Steve Smith, Australian cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer |
1993 | The birth of Adam Taggart, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Morissette, Filipina singer-songwriter |
1999 | The birth of Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league player |
2002 | The birth of Madison Hu, American actress |
2008 | The death of Mel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1917) |
2009 | The death of David Eddings, American author (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of Richard Dawson, English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (b. 1940) |
2012 | The death of Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Ivica Brzić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Nikolay Khrenkov, Russian bobsledder (b. 1984) |
2014 | The death of Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Fernando de Araújo, East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (b. 1963) |
2015 | The death of Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921) |
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