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||1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | ||1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | ||
||1957 | File:Kyshtym disaster map.png|link=Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)|1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]. | ||
||1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) | ||1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) | ||
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1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1954: Physician and soldier Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
2005: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Martin David Kruskal uses theory of solitons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.