Anniversaries

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Sep

September 10, 2008 - CERN's LHC particle accelerator starts operating successfully

11
Sep

September 11, 1907 – Birth of Alice Leigh-Smith, the first British woman to earn a PhD in nuclear physics

12
Sep

September 12, 1897 – Birth of Iréne Joliot-Curie, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of new radioactive elements

12
Sep

September, 12, 1897 - Birth of Iréne Joliot-Curie, shared the Nobel Prize for the synthesis of new radioactive elements

12
Sep

September 12, 1933 – Leó Szilárd conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction

13
Sep

September 13, 2013 - Voyager I becomes the first object to reach interstellar space

14
Sep

September 14, 1712 - Death of Giovanni Cassini, he made the first accurate measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun

14
Sep

September 14, 1959 - For the first time a man-made object lands on the moon

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Sep

September 15, 1929 - Birth of Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize who coined the term quark and classified elementary particles

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Sep

September 16, 1736 - Death of Daniel Fahrenheit, designed the famous scale and invented the mercury thermometer

17
Sep

September 17, 1936 – Death of Henry Le Châtelier, famous in chemistry for the principle that bears his name

17
Sep

September 17, 1927 - Birth of Hélène Langevin-Joliot, nuclear physicist who belongs to a saga dedicated to science

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