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May

May 3, 1933 - Birth of Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize for the study of elementary particles

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May 3, 1892 - George Paget Thomson was born, Nobel Prize for his studies on the diffraction of electrons in crystals and the demonstration of their wave properties

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May

May 4, 1870 – Birth of Antonius van den Broek, the physicist who established the direct correlation between the charge of the atomic nucleus and the periodic table

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May

May 8, 1794 - Death of Antoine Lavoisier, considered the father of modern chemistry

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May

May 9, 1909 - Birth of Hilde Levi, a pioneer in the use of radiocarbon dating techniques and autoradiography

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May

May 10, 1860 - Cesium is discovered

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May

May 10, 1860 - Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discover caesium

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May

May 11, 1916 - Albert Einstein presents his General Theory of Relativity

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May

May 11, 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, "the curious physicist who became an icon of science"

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May

May 11, 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize who was able to convey the complexity of theoretical physics in a simple way

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May

May 13, 1975 – Death of Marguerite Perey, discoverer of francium and first woman elected academician at the Académie des Sciences

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May

May 15, 1859 - Birth of Pierre Curie, shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactive elements

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