Month → September

24
Sep

September 24, 1945 - Death of Hans Geiger, German physicist who developed the counter that bears his name

24
Sep

September 24, 1945 - Death of Hans Geiger, developer of the counter that bears his name

24
Sep

24 September 1978 - Death of Ida Eva Tacke-Noddack, discovered rhenium and first proposed the idea of nuclear fission

25
Sep

September 25, 1644 – Birth of Ole Rømer, the first to determine the speed of light

25
Sep

September 25, 1986 – Death of Nikolái Semiónov, discovered a method for measuring the magnetic field of the atomic nucleus

26
Sep

September 26, 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity

26
Sep

September 26, 1978 - Death of Karl Manne Siegbahn, Nobel Prize for his contribution to the field of X-ray spectroscopy

26
Sep

September 26, 1754 – Birth of Joseph Louis Proust, one of the founders of modern chemistry

28
Sep

September 28, 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures defines the length of one meter

29
Sep

September 29, 2010 - Death of Georges Charpak, Nobel laureate for inventing and developing particle detectors

30
Sep

September 30, 1882 – Birth of Hans Geiger, developer of the counter that bears his name

30
Sep

September 30, 1870 – Birth of Jean Perrin, his discoveries settling a century-long dispute

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