Month → August

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Aug

August 21, 1907 - Birth of John G. Trump, known for his contribution to the development of radiotherapy

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Aug

August 25, 1908 - Death of Antoine Henri Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity

26
Aug

August 26, 1743 - Birth of Antoine Lavoisier, considered the father of modern chemistry

27
Aug

August 27, 1958 - Death of Ernest Lawrence, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the cyclotron

27
Aug

August 27, 1875 – Paul E. Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovers gallium

27
Aug

August 27, 1915 – Birth of Norman Foster Ramsey, his research led to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance and the atomic clock

28
Aug

August 28, 2006 - Death of Melvin Schwartz who shared the Nobel Prize for his studies on neutrinos

29
Aug

August 29, 1982 - Meitnerium synthesized for the first time

30
Aug

August 30, 1940 – Death of Joseph J. Thomson, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron

30
Aug

August 30, 1871 – Birth of Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize considered one of the fathers of atomic physics

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