Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Myrtle Bachelder |
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Birthdate | March 13, 1908 |
Birth Place | Orange, MA |
Age (in 2024) | 116 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Chemist |
Myrtle Bachelder is best known as Chemist who has born on March 13, 1908 in Orange, MA. Currently, Myrtle Bachelder is 116 years, 8 months and 8 days old. Myrtle Bachelder will celebrate 117th birthday on Thursday, 13th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Myrtle Bachelder upcoming birthday.
Chemist remembered for her secret work on the development of the atomic bomb. Later in her career, she made important discoveries related to the metallic elements of indium and tellurium.
After graduating from Middlebury College and Boston University, she served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. It was during her time with the WAC that she became involved in the top-secret Manhattan Project.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), she studied the chemical composition of rocks collected on the Moon.
A native of Orange, Massachusetts, she later settled in Illinois, where she worked in the chemistry department at the University of Chicago.
Under the direction of physicist and Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer, she studied the radioactive potential of various uranium isotopes.
Myrtle Bachelder is 116 years old today.
Myrtle Bachelder was born on March 13, 1908 in Orange, MA.
Myrtle Bachelder zodiac sign is Pisces.
Myrtle Bachelder was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Myrtle Bachelder's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1957 | Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. |
1969 | Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. |
1979 | The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. |
1988 | The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. |
1992 | The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). |
1993 | The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. |
1996 | The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. |
1997 | The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. |
2003 | An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. |
2012 | The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children. |
2013 | The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. |
2016 | The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people. |
2016 | Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. |
2020 | President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. |
2020 | Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality. |
1987 | The birth of Marco Andretti, American race car driver |
1987 | The birth of Andreas Beck, German footballer |
1988 | The birth of Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer |
1989 | The birth of Holger Badstuber, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Marko Marin, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver |
1990 | The birth of Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer |
1991 | The birth of Daniel Greig, Australian speed skater |
1991 | The birth of Tristan Thompson, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Gerard Deulofeu, Spanish footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jang Su-jeong, South Korean tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Mikaela Shiffrin, American skier |
1998 | The birth of Jay-Roy Grot, Dutch footballer |
2001 | The birth of Thomas Dearden, Australian rugby league player |
2004 | The birth of Coco Gauff, American tennis player |
2009 | The death of Alan W. Livingston, American businessman (b. 1917) |
2010 | The death of Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2011 | The death of Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Icchokas Meras, Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author (b. 1965) |
2018 | The death of Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American professional boxer (b. 1954) |
2021 | The death of Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of William Hurt, American actor (b. 1950) |
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