Month → September

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Sep

September 16, 1736 - Death of Daniel Fahrenheit, designed the famous scale and invented the mercury thermometer

17
Sep

September 17, 1936 – Death of Henry Le Châtelier, famous in chemistry for the principle that bears his name

17
Sep

September 17, 1927 - Birth of Hélène Langevin-Joliot, nuclear physicist who belongs to a saga dedicated to science

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Sep

September 18, 1907 - Birth of Edwin McMillan, Nobel Prize for the creation of the first transuranium elements and his improvements over the cyclotron led to the synchrotron

18
Sep

September 18, 1967 – Death of John Douglas Cockroft, Nobel Prize for achieving the disintegration of the atomic nucleus

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Sep

September 19, 1710 – Death of Ole Rømer, the first to determine the speed of light

20
Sep

September 20, 1842 - Birth of James Dewar, first to obtain liquid and solid hydrogen

21
Sep

September 21, 1996 - Death of Erika Cremer, tireless in her research on gas chromatography

22
Sep

September 22, 1956 - Death of Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the knowledge of radioactivity and radioactive substances

22
Sep

22 September 1922 - Birth of Chen Ning Yang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theories on parity violation in weak interactions

23
Sep

September 23, 1882 - Death of Friedrich Wöhler, the first to isolate beryllium and aluminum metal

23
Sep

September 23, 1915 - Birth Clifford G. Shull, Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of neutron scattering techniques

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