History of the Atom Timeline 6

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Nuclear fission is discovered by Strassmann and Hahn.

Enrico Fermi causes the first controlled nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago.

Nuclear magnetic resonance is developed by Bloch and Purcell.

Powell discovers the pi meson, or pion particle.

The Soviet Union had its first atomic bomb test. Harold Lyons created the atomic clock.

Scientists see single atoms for the first time with a field ion microscope.

The quark is discovered by Zweig and Gell-Mann.

The tau lepton is discovered. This is an elementary particle which only exists for a fraction of a billionth of a second.

Binning invented the atomic force microscope, which can identify individual atoms.

Rich and van House invented the positron microscope.

Three generations of elementary particles are confirmed with LEP experiments.

The top quark is discovered by Fermilab in Chicago.

The first direct evidence of the existence of the tau neutrino is published.

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Levin, F and Micha, D (1993). Long-Range Casimir Forces: Theory and Recent Experiments on Atomic Systems. Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics.
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