 1900 - Max Planck introduces before the German Physical Society a hypothesis of light as quantized energy packets. |
| 1909 - Edward Lawrie Tatum born: discovered genes which regulate some chemical processes; Nobel Prize (medicine), 1958. |
| 1940 - Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, J. W. Kennedy, and A. C. Wahl bombarded uranium oxide with 16-MeV deuterons to produce plutonium (Pu, element 94). |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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