Anniversaries

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Sep

September 9, 1928 – Birth of Vera Kistiakowsky, an expert in nuclear chemistry and physics, particle physics, and astrophysics

09
Sep

September 9, 1922 – Birth of Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the advancement of microphysics

10
Sep

September 10, 1892 – Birth of Arthur Compton, discoverer of the effect confirming that light has both wave and particle properties

10
Sep

September 10, 1975 - Death of George Paget Thomson, Nobel Prize for his studies on the diffraction of electrons in crystals and the demonstration of their wave properties

10
Sep

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

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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

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Sep

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

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Sep

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

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Sep

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

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