Paul Ulrich Villard

Paul Ulrich Villard was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium.

28 September 1860

Born on the same birth day (28 September): Alina Ibragimova • Anderson Varejão • Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton • Cromwell Everson • George W. S. Trow • Heikki Savolainen (gymnast) • Johann Peter Kellner • John Scott (rugby union) • Keir Gilchrist • Meskerem Legesse • Paul Burgess (musician) • Ron Fellows • Sheikh Hasina • Sylvia Kristel • William Windom (actor)

Born in the same month (September 1860): Alberto Franchetti • Grandma Moses • Hamlin Garland • James Allan (rugby union) • Jane Addams • John J. Pershing • Marianne von Werefkin • May Jordan McConnel • Mihkel Martna