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Australia in 2012

Historical records for Australia in 2012, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

2Records
2Events
2Named people
1Places
2Categories

Historical records

September

25 September 2012Hubble eXtreme Deep FieldGarth Illingworth

Science / Astronomy

Illingworth helps assemble the eXtreme Deep Field from a decade of Hubble exposures, revealing thousands of exceptionally faint galaxies.

Other Events

2012Single-Atom TransistorMichelle Yvonne Simmons

Sydney · Science / Technology

Leads construction of a transistor whose active region is defined at the scale of a single dopant atom, enabling control of individual-electron states.

Names involved

Garth IllingworthMichelle Yvonne Simmons

Places involved

Sydney

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.