29 Aug 1919
United States
United States
- Joseph Stilwell enrolled in the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States to study Chinese. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Berkeley, California | CPC]
17 May 1920
United States
United States
- Joseph Stilwell completed a Chinese curriculum at the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Berkeley, California | CPC]
29 Feb 1940
United States
United States
- In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California (because of the war) physicist Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Swedish Consul General in San Francisco. ww2dbase [Berkeley, California | CPC]
14 Dec 1940
United States
United States
- At University of California, Berkeley in the United States, the team led by Glenn Seaborg synthesized neptunium-238 by bombarding uranium-238 with deuterons, creating neptunium-238. Neptunium-238 would then decay to become plutonium-238. This would not be published until 1948. ww2dbase [Berkeley, California | CPC]
23 Feb 1941
United States
United States
- Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg chemically identified the recently discovered new element Plutonium in the 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California at Berkeley, California, United States. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | Berkeley, California | CPC]
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