Anniversaries

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Sep

September 28, 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures defines the length of one meter

28
Sep

September 28, 1852 - Birth of Henri Moissan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating fluorine

29
Sep

September 29, 1901 - Birth of Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize for achieving the first nuclear chain reaction

29
Sep

September 29, 1954 – In Switzerland, twelve European countries found CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

29
Sep

September 29, 2010 - Death of Georges Charpak, Nobel laureate for inventing and developing particle detectors

30
Sep

September 30, 1882 – Birth of Hans Geiger, developer of the counter that bears his name

30
Sep

September 30, 1870 – Birth of Jean Perrin, his discoveries settling a century-long dispute

30
Sep

September 30, 1819 - Death of Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in research into the greenhouse effect

02
Oct

October 2, 1852 - Birth of William Ramsay, who discovered the 6 noble gases in the periodic table

03
Oct

October 3, 2018 - Death of Leon Max Lederman, Nobel Prize for his research on neutrinos

04
Oct

October 4, 1938 - Birth of Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize for developing nuclear magnetic resonance methods

05
Oct

October 5, 1899 - Birth of Elda Emma Anderson, the first to prepare a sample of pure uranium-235 in the laboratory

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