Month → September

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Sep

September 1, 1877 – Birth of Francis William Aston, physicist, chemist, and university professor who discovered a large number of non-radioactive isotopes

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Sep

September 1, 1988 – Death of Luis Walter Álvarez, director of the construction of the first proton linear particle accelerator

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Sep

September 2, 1877 – Birth of Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 for his work on isotopes and radioactivity

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Sep

September 2, 1853 - Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize Winner for his studies on chemical equilibria, reaction rates, and catalysis

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Sep

September 3, 1803 – John Dalton, multidisciplinary scientist, presents his graphical system to represent the atoms of different elements

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Sep

September 3, 1897 - Birth of Elizaveta Karamichailova, one of the first pioneers in nuclear physics at the beginning of the 20th century

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Sep

September 5, 1850 – Birth of Eugen Goldstein, discoverer of cathode rays that led to the discovery of isotopes

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Sep

September 5, 1977 - The Voyager I space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral

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Sep

September 6, 1766 - Birth of John Dalton, naturalist, chemist, mathematician, meteorologist, and father of modern atomic theory

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Sep

September 6, 1905 – Birth of Walter Müller, co-inventor of the famous Geiger-Müller radiation counter

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Sep

September 7, 1991 - Death of Edwin McMillan, created the first transuranics and his improvements over the cyclotron led to the synchrotron

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Sep

September 8, 1980 - Death of Willard Frank Libby, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry for carbon-14 dating

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