Month → December

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December 13, 1888 - Birth of Catherine Chamié, measured the half-life of radon for the first time

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Dec

December 15, 1852 - Birth of Antoine Henri Becquerel, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity

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Dec

December 15, 1958 – Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Laureate for his Exclusion Principle, proposing a fourth quantum number, and theorizing about the neutrino

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Dec

December 16, 1954 – Tracy Hall manufactures synthetic diamonds for the first time at the General Electric Research Laboratories

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Dec

December 17, 1908 - Birth of Willard Frank Libby, Nobel Prize for carbon-14 dating

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Dec

December 17, 1895 - Death of János Irinyi, inventor of silent and non-explosive matches

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Dec

December 18, 1856 – Birth of Joseph J. Thomson, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the electron

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Dec

December 19, 1938 - Nuclear fission was discovered

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Dec

December 19, 1875 - Birth of Mileva Marić Ruzić, debate still rages over her contribution to Einstein's discoveries

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Dec

December 20, 1901 - Birth of Robert Van de Graaff, whose electrostatic generator made many curious about science

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Dec

December 22, 1828- Death of William Hyde Wollaston, discoverer of palladium and rhodium

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Dec

December 23, 1907 - Death of Pierre Janssen, discoverer of the chemical element helium

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