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

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

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February 14, 1961 - Lawrencium is discovered

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

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February 15, 1901 - Birth of Manuel Gutiérrez-Cortines

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February 15, 1988 - Death of Richard Feynman, a unique genius

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February 18, 1913 - Frederick Soddy introduces the term isotope

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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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February 20, 1907 - Death of Henri Moissan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating fluorine

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February 21, 1985 - Death of John G. Trump, known for his contribution to the development of radiotherapy

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February 22, 1923, Einstein's first visit to Spain

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February 22, 1902 - Fritz Strassmann is born

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