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    Albert Einstein was one of the scientists involved with the creation of the atomic bomb, invented under the code name “Manhattan Project”, which devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory was launched

On the 5th April, 1991, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the second of NASA’s “Great Observatories” after the Hubble Space Telescope, was launched.

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