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||1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born ... chemist and academic.
||1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born ... chemist and academic.
||1901: George Francis FitzGerald dies ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.


||1902: Fritz Strassmann born ... chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.. Pic: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/fritz-strassmann
||1902: Fritz Strassmann born ... chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.. Pic: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/fritz-strassmann

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