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2009 in Canada

Explore 3 historical events and records for Canada in 2009.

Historical records for Canada in 2009

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December

Nobel Prize for CCD Imaging

Boyle, Willard · Stockholm · Physicist · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the imaging semiconductor circuit known as the CCD.

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Discovery of GJ 1214 b

Charbonneau, David · United States of America · Astronomer · Science / Astronomy

Leads discovery of transiting super-Earth GJ 1214 b around a nearby red dwarf.

The Year of the Flood

Atwood, Margaret · Arts / Literature

Publication of "The Year of the Flood"

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