Anniversaries of note this year range from the discovery of alpha particles and inert gases to a plague of medical breakthroughs, the creation of a health service to make them available⃛ and the invention of an ice-cream freezer.
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Heilbron, J., Bynum, W. Eighteen-ninety-eight and all that. Nature 391, 13–16 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/34022
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