Nuclear Timeline

NuclearTimeline.json

[
	{
		"date": "1895-11-08",
		"event": "X-rays produced with a cathode ray tube",
		"people": "Wilhelm Röntgen"
	},
	{
		"date": "1896-03-02",
		"event": "Uranium is radioactive",
		"people": "Henri Becquerel"
	},
	{
		"date": "1898-12-26",
		"event": "Radium separated from pitchblende",
		"people": "Marie and Pierre Curie"
	},
	{
		"date": "1911-05",
		"event": "Nuclear model of the atom",
		"people": "Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden"
	},
	{
		"date": "1932-02-17",
		"event": "Neutron discovered",
		"people": "James Chadwick"
	},
	{
		"date": "1932",
		"event": "Synthetic fission reaction (Li7 + p -> a + a)",
		"people": "John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton"
	},
	{
		"date": "1933",
		"event": "Synthetic fusion reaction",
		"people": "Mark Oliphant"
	},
	{
		"date": "1933-09-12",
		"event": "Fission chain reaction hypothesized",
		"people": "Leó Szilárd"
	},
	{
		"date": "1938/1939",
		"event": "Synthetic fission of uranium",
		"people": "Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch"
	},
	{
		"date": "1941-02-23",
		"event": "Plutonium synthesized",
		"people": "Ernest Lawrence, Glenn Seaborg, Art Wahl"
	},
	{
		"date": "1942-12-02",
		"event": "Synthetic fission chain-reaction (Chicago Pile 1)",
		"people": "Enrico Fermi"
	},
	{
		"date": "1945-07-16",
		"event": "Nuclear explosive detonated (Trinity)",
		"people": "Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer"
	},
	{
		"date": "1951-10-27",
		"event": "Cobalt therapy given (Victoria hospital, London, Ontario)",
		"people": "Harold E. Johns"
	},
	{
		"date": "1951-12-20",
		"event": "Electricity generated from fission (EBR I)",
		"people": "Walter Zinn"
	},
	{
		"date": "1952-11-01",
		"event": "Fusion explosive detonated (Ivy Mike)",
		"people": "Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam"
	},
	{
		"date": "1953-12-08",
		"event": "Atoms For Peace speech before the UN General Assembly",
		"people": "Dwight Eisenhower"
	},
	{
		"date": "1955-01-17",
		"event": "USS Nautilus underway on nuclear power",
		"people": "Hyman Rickover"
	},
	{
		"date": "1959-07-01",
		"event": "Nuclear thermal rocket test (KIWI-A)",
		"people": "Robert Bussard / Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory"
	},
	{
		"date": "1961-05-14",
		"event": "Nuclear ramjet test (Tory-IIA)",
		"people": "Lawrence Radiation Laboratory"
	},
	{
		"date": "1961-06-29",
		"event": "Radioisotope generator launched into space (SNAP-3)",
		"people": "AEC / The Martin Company"
	},
	{
		"date": "1965-04-03",
		"event": "Nuclear reactor launched into space (SNAP-10A)",
		"people": "AEC / Atomics International"
	}
]