Anniversaries

11
Feb

February 11 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science

11
Feb

February 11, 1847 – Birth of Thomas Alva Edison, an inventor with 1,093 patents who was able to modify the customs and habits of his time

11
Feb

February 11, 1898 – Birth of Leó Szilárd, the man with great ideas on nuclear physics, engineering and molecular biology

12
Feb

February 12, 1918 - Birth of Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize in Physics and teacher of four other Nobel Prizes

13
Feb

February 13, 1785 - Birth of Pierre Louis Dulong who found the relationship between the specific heat of an element and its atomic weight

14
Feb

February 14, 1961 - Lawrencium is discovered

14
Feb

February 14, 2000 - Death of Walter Zinn, demonstrated that uranium underwent fission when bombarded with neutrons

15
Feb

February 15, 1901 - Birth of Manuel Gutiérrez‑Cortines, he took part in the founding of Foro Nuclear

15
Feb

February 15, 1988 - Death of Richard Feynman, who was able to convey the complexity of theoretical physics in a simple, accessible way

18
Feb

February 18, 1913 - Frederick Soddy introduces the term isotope

18
Feb

February 18, 1745 – Birth of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery

20
Feb

February 20, 1902 – Birth of Katharine Way, known for her great contribution to nuclear physics and the construction of the Chicago Pile-1 reactor

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