Month → September

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September 9, 1928 – Birth of Vera Kistiakowsky, she studied nuclear chemistry, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics

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Sep

September 9, 1922 – Birth of Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the advancement of microphysics

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Sep

September 10, 1892 – Birth of Arthur Compton, famous for the effect that bears his name, which confirmed that electromagnetic radiation has both wave and particle properties

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Sep

September 10, 1975 - Death of George Paget Thomson, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the diffraction of electrons in crystals and the demonstration of their wave properties

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Sep

September 10, 2008 - CERN's LHC particle accelerator starts operating successfully

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Sep

September 11, 1907 – Birth of Alice Leigh-Smith, the first British woman to earn a PhD in nuclear physics

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Sep

September 12, 1897 – Birth of Iréne Joliot-Curie, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of new radioactive elements

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Sep

September 12, 1933 – Leó Szilárd conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction

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Sep

September 13, 2013 - Voyager I becomes the first object to reach interstellar space

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Sep

14 September 1712 - Death of Giovanni Cassini, he made the first accurate measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun

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Sep

14 September 1959 - Man-made object reaches the Moon for the first time

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Sep

September 15, 1929 - Birth of Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize winner who coined the term quark

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