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08.07.1895
The theoretical foundation of the blue glow observed in nuclear reactors known as the Cherenkov Effect was formulated by Igor Tamm, Nobel Prize in Physics, who was born on July 8, 1895.
05.07.1687
Sir Isaac Newton published one of the most influential scientific works in history, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("The Principia").
02.07.1876
Harriet Brooks was once compared to Marie Curie due to her scientific abilities and her pursuits in the field of nuclear physics. She was the first woman to work in nuclear physics in Canada and is well known for her contributions to the work of Ernest Rutherford, the Nobel Prize laureate widely regarded as the father of nuclear physics.
24.06.1927
American physicist Martin Lewis Perl was born on June 24, 1927, and is considered one of the most prominent figures in the field of particle physics. He is best known for his discovery of a heavy lepton, later named the tau lepton (τ) — a breakthrough that played a pivotal role in understanding the third generation of subatomic particles within the Standard Model of particle physics.
19.06.1922
Most people believe that the atomic nucleus is spherical in shape, but did you know that it’s actually not? The credit for uncovering this fact goes to the physicist Aage Bohr.
13.06.1911
What does an atom look like? While this may seem like a theoretical question, Erwin Müller was the first to provide a real answer with actual images of individual atoms.
03.05.1892
A portion of the credit for what scientists know today about electrons goes to the Thomson family. Sir George Thomson, who was born on this day, May 3, 1892, is renowned for discovering that electrons exhibit wave-like properties. His father, Joseph John Thomson, was the one who discovered the electrons themselves.
15.05.1859
Pierre Curie was born on this day, May 15 in 1859 and became renowned for his pioneering work alongside Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel in nuclear science and radioactivity. While studying the properties of radium, a previously unknown element at the time, Pierre Curie and his colleagues discovered that a fragment of radium continuously emitted heat. This heat was later identified as the first discovered form of radiation.
27.05.1897
The first successful splitting of the atom using a particle accelerator was due in part to Sir John Cockcroft, who was born on this day May 27, 1897.
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