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jan 1, 1919 - 1919

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June - Rutherford bombards nitrogen gas with alpha particles and obtains atoms of an oxygen isotope and protons. This transmutation of nitrogen into oxygen was the first artificially induced nuclear reaction.

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jan 1, 1919
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~ 107 years ago