Anniversaries

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Sep

September 18, 1967 – Death of John Douglas Cockroft, Nobel Prize for achieving the disintegration of the atomic nucleus

19
Sep

September 19, 1710 – Death of Ole Rømer, the first to determine the speed of light

20
Sep

September 20, 1842 - Birth of James Dewar, first to obtain liquid and solid hydrogen

21
Sep

September 21, 1996 - Death of Erika Cremer, tireless in her research on gas chromatography

22
Sep

September 22, 1956 - Death of Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the knowledge of radioactivity and radioactive substances

22
Sep

22 September 1922 - Birth of Chen Ning Yang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theories on parity violation in weak interactions

23
Sep

September 23, 1882 - Death of Friedrich Wöhler, the first to isolate beryllium and aluminum metal

23
Sep

September 23, 1915 - Birth Clifford G. Shull, Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of neutron scattering techniques

24
Sep

September 24, 1945 - Death of Hans Geiger, German physicist who developed the counter that bears his name

24
Sep

September 24, 1945 - Death of Hans Geiger, developer of the counter that bears his name

24
Sep

24 September 1978 - Death of Ida Eva Tacke-Noddack, discovered rhenium and first proposed the idea of nuclear fission

25
Sep

September 25, 1644 – Birth of Ole Rømer, the first to determine the speed of light

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