An anniversarial cornucopia featuring rubber gloves, Louis Ilosvay de Nagy-Ilosva, the Eiffel Tower, nuclear fission, the Swedish Academy of Sciences, J. Willard Gibbs, the omega minus meson, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Timothy the tortoise and much, much more.
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Bynum, W., Heilbron, J. Eighteen eighty nine and all that. Nature 337, 29–32 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/337029a0
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