Month → December

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Dec

December 1, 1743 - Birth of Martin Klaproth, discoverer of uranium, zirconium, titanium, tellurium, strontium, cerium and chromium

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Dec

December 2, 1942 - The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is achieved

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Dec

December 3, 1886 - Birth of Karl Manne Siegbahn, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the field of X-ray spectroscopy

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Dec

December 4, 1979 – Death of Walter Müller, co-inventor of the famous Geiger-Müller radiation counter

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Dec

December 5, 1904 - Death of Lucy Everest Boole, first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women and first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

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Dec

December 6, 1863 - Birth of Charles Martin Hall, developed a method to economise the production of aluminium

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Dec

December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech

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Dec

December 9, 1995 – Death of Katharine Way, known for her great contribution to nuclear physics and the construction of the Chicago Pile-1 reactor

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Dec

December 9, 1748 - Birth of Claude Louis Berthollet, his system of chemical nomenclature was the basis of the current system of naming chemical compounds

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Dec

December 10, 1906 - Birth of Walter Zinn, demonstrated that uranium underwent fission when bombarded with neutrons

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Dec

December 11, 2021 – Death of Vera Kistiakowsky, an expert in nuclear chemistry and physics, particle physics, and astrophysics

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Dec

December 11, 1882 - Birth of Max Born, the man Einstein turned to whenever he had doubts about quantum mechanics

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