Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 2

December 2:

 * 1885 – Birth of George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
 * 1931 – Birth of Nigel Calder, British science writer
 * 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction