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April 15, 1896 – Birth of Nikolái Semiónov, discovered a method for measuring the magnetic field of the atomic nucleus

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Apr

April 15 - World Art Day

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Apr

April 16, 1958 – Death of Rosalind Franklin imaged DNA by X-ray diffraction

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Apr

April 17, 1942 – Death of Jean Perrin, his discoveries settling a century-long dispute

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Apr

April 17, 1961 - Death of Elda Emma Anderson, the first to prepare a sample of pure uranium-235 in the laboratory

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Apr

April 18, 1955 - Death of Albert Einstein

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Apr

Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, born April 19, 1912

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Apr

April 19, 1906 - Death of Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize winner for discovering radioactivity and the chemical elements radium and polonium

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Apr

April 20, 1902 - The Curies Isolate Radium

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Apr

April 20, 1918 - Birth of Kai Siegbahn, Nobel Prize for his contributions to the development of high-resolution laser spectroscopy

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Apr

April 24, 1960 – Death of Max von Laue, Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries on X-ray diffraction

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Apr

April 24, 1968 - Death of Elizaveta Karamichailova, a pioneer of early 20th-century nuclear physics

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