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Physics: Oersted discovers link between electricity and magnetism
1820: Oersted discovers link between electricity and magnetism Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliter...
Physics: 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
1989 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul The invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use ...
Physics: Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku (1947) Michio Kaku (; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular scienc...
Physics: Viscosity
Viscosity When two fluid layers move relative to each other, a friction force develops between them and the slower layer acts to slow down the faster layer....
Physics: Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment
Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment By: Cowan and Reines (1956) The Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment was conducted by physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...
Physics: 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics
1957 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee Their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to imp...
Physics: John Dalton
John Dalton (1766) John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations o...
Physics: Walter Brattain
Walter Brattain (1902) Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-n; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Phys...
Physics: Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli (1900) Wolfgang Ernst Pauli ( PAW-lee; German: [ˈpaʊ̯li] ; 25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist and a p...
Physics: First direct gravitational wave detection
2015: First direct gravitational wave detection Gravitational waves are waves of spacetime curvature that propagate at the speed of light and are produced by t...
Physics: Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier (1768) Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf fuʁje]; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist b...
Physics: Carnot founds thermodynamic cycle analysis
1824: Carnot founds thermodynamic cycle analysis Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: [nikɔla leɔnaʁ sadi kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French mi...
Physics: Stern–Gerlach experiment
Stern–Gerlach experiment By: Stern and Gerlach (1922) In quantum physics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular mom...
Physics: Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry (1797) Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian...
Physics: Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868) Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (German: [ˈaʁnɔlt ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist ...
Physics: Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus....
Physics: Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr (1885) Niels Henrik David Bohr (; Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundation...
Physics: Wave equation
Wave equation Form: c = λν The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength....
Physics: Infrared
Infrared Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than ...
Physics: Henry Kendall
Henry Kendall (1926) Henry Kendall may refer to:....
Physics: Uncertainty principle
Uncertainty principle Form: ΔxΔp ≥ h/4π The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mech...
Physics: James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (1831) James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classic...
Physics: Gravitational wave
Gravitational wave Gravitational waves are waves of spacetime curvature that propagate at the speed of light and are produced by the relative motion of gravita...
Physics: Archimedes' principle
Archimedes' principle Archimedes' principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is ...
Physics: Fizeau experiment
Fizeau experiment By: Hippolyte Fizeau (1851) The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in movi...
Physics: Max Planck
Max Planck (1858) Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (; German: [ˈmaks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist....
Physics: Gamma ray
Gamma ray A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from high-energy interactions like ...
Physics: 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics
2007 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg The discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance....
Physics: Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa (1907) Hideki Yukawa (Japanese: 湯川 秀樹; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel ...
Physics: Dark energy
Dark energy In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is a proposed form of energy that affects the universe on its largest scales....
Physics: 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
1994 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull The development of neutron spectroscopy / for the development of the neutron ...
Physics: 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics
2002 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi Pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for th...
Physics: X-ray
X-ray An X-ray is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays....
Physics: Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs (1929) Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laure...
Physics: Galileo publishes foundational work on motion
1638: Galileo publishes foundational work on motion The Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Italian: Discorsi e dimostrazi...
Physics: Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether (1882) Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra....
Physics: Capacitor
Capacitor A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each ot...
Physics: Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (1873) Karl Schwarzschild (German: [kaʁl ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt] ; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer....
Physics: Acceleration
Acceleration In mechanics, an acceleration is a change in velocity and is calculated as the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time....
Physics: Becquerel discovers natural radioactivity
1896: Becquerel discovers natural radioactivity Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegr...
Physics: Democritus
Democritus (460) Democritus (, dim-OCK-rit-əs; Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people"; c....
Physics: QED renormalization established
1948: QED renormalization established In particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics....
Physics: Centripetal acceleration
Centripetal acceleration Form: a = v²/r Centripetal force (from Latin centrum 'center' and petere 'to seek') is the force that makes a body follow a curved p...
Physics: 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics
1910 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Johannes Diderik van der Waals His work on the equation of state for gases and liquids....
Physics: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( CHƏN-drə-SHAY-kər; Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர், romanized: Cuppiramaṇiyaṉ Cantiracēkar; 19 ...
Physics: General relativity
General relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitat...
Physics: Resistance (electricity)
Resistance (electricity) The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current....
Physics: Julian Schwinger
Julian Schwinger (1918) Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist....
Physics: James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (1818) James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist....
Physics: Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia (1934) Carlo Rubbia (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon v...
Physics: Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne (1940) Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author....
Physics: Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson (1905) Carlton Earl "Carl" Anderson (February 27, 1945 – February 23, 2004) was an American singer, film and theater actor best known for his por...
Physics: Elementary charge
Elementary charge e = 1.602×10⁻¹⁹ C The elementary charge, usually denoted by e, is a fundamental physical constant, defined as the electric charge carried by ...
Physics: Centripetal force
Centripetal force Centripetal force (from Latin centrum 'center' and petere 'to seek') is the force that makes a body follow a curved path....
Physics: Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing (1943) Klaus von Klitzing (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈklɪtsɪŋ] ; born 28 June 1943) is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quan...
Physics: 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics
1920 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Charles Edouard Guillaume In recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his di...
Physics: 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
1983 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler His theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to t...
Physics: 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier Experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the ...
Physics: 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics
1980 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch The discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of ...
Physics: Burton Richter
Burton Richter (1931) Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist....
Physics: Anne L'Huillier
Anne L'Huillier (1958) Anne Geneviève L'Huillier (French: [an lɥije]; born 16 August 1958) is a French physicist....
Physics: Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger (1945) Anton Zeilinger (German: [ˈanton ˈtsaɪlɪŋɐ]; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022....
Physics: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906) Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō; March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, wa...
Physics: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
2012 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland Ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of indivi...
Physics: Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe (1546) Tycho Brahe ( TY-koh BRAH-(h)ee, - BRAH(-hə); Danish: [ˈtsʰykʰo ˈpʁɑːə] ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, Danish: [ˈtsʰyːjə ˈʌtəsn̩ ˈpʁɑːə]; 14 De...
Physics: Pulsar
Pulsar A pulsar (pulsating star, on the model of quasar) is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its ...
Physics: 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics
1955 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch His discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum / for his pr...
Physics: Born rule
Born rule The Born rule is a postulate of quantum mechanics that gives the probability that a measurement of a quantum system will yield a given result....
Physics: Angular momentum
Angular momentum Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum....
Physics: Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking (1942) Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was dire...
Physics: Einstein completes general relativity
1915: Einstein completes general relativity General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geo...
Physics: Davisson–Germer experiment
Davisson–Germer experiment By: Davisson and Germer (1927) The Davisson–Germer experiment was conducted from 1923 to 1927 by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer ...
Physics: Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose (1931) Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science....
Physics: 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips Development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light...
Physics: Magnetic flux
Magnetic flux Form: Φ = BA cos θ In physics, specifically electromagnetism, the magnetic flux through a surface is the surface integral of the normal component...
Physics: 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics
1973 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson Their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semicon...
Physics: Prism (optics)
Prism (optics) An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light....
Physics: J. J. Thomson
J. J. Thomson (1856) Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist....
Physics: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: də-GRASS or UK: də-GRAHSS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science commu...
Physics: Bragg's law
Bragg's law Form: n sin θ = mλ In many areas of science, Bragg's law — also known as Wulff–Bragg's condition or Laue–Bragg interference — is a special case of ...
Physics: Gravity
Gravity In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, which may ...
Physics: Young's interference experiment
Young's interference experiment By: Thomas Young (1803) Young's interference experiment is any one of a number of optical experiments described or performed at...
Physics: 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
2010 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov Groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene....
Physics: Chadwick discovers neutron
1932: Chadwick discovers neutron A neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol n or n0, that has no electric charge, and a mass slightly greater than that of a pro...
Physics: 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics
1991 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be gener...
Physics: Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov (1974) Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов, IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ nəvɐˈsʲɵləf];...
Physics: Neutrino
Neutrino A neutrino ( new-TREE-noh; denoted by the Greek letter ν) is an elementary particle that interacts via the weak interaction and gravity....
Physics: Hans Christian Orsted
Hans Christian Orsted (1777) Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a ...
Physics: 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
1914 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Max von Laue His discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals....
Physics: Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta (1745) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (UK: , US: ; Italian: [alesˈsandro dʒuˈzɛppe anˈtɔnjo anasˈtaːzjo ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745...
Physics: Kite experiment
Kite experiment By: Benjamin Franklin (1752) The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex...
Physics: Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (1959) Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, B...
Physics: 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics
1944 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Isidor Isaac Rabi His resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei....
Physics: Lev Landau
Lev Landau (1908) Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contribut...
Physics: Speed of light
Speed of light Form: c² = 1/μ₀ε₀ The speed of light in vacuum, often called simply the speed of light and commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant ...
Physics: 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics
1929 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie His discovery of the wave nature of electrons....
Physics: Planck introduces quantum hypothesis
1900: Planck introduces quantum hypothesis The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by h {\displaystyle h} ...
Physics: Louis de Broglie
Louis de Broglie (1892) Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (French: [də bʁɔj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French theoretical physicist...
Physics: Joule's paddle wheel experiment
Joule's paddle wheel experiment By: James Joule (1843) James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist....
Physics: Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (1947) Alain Jean Aspect (French: [aspɛ] ; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement....
Physics: Compton scattering
Compton scattering Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of scattering of a high-frequency photon through an interaction with a char...
Physics: Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Glashow (1932) Sheldon Lee Glashow (US: , UK: ; born December 5, 1932) is an American theoretical physicist....
Physics: Impedance of free space
Impedance of free space Z₀ = 376.73 Ω In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or an electromagnetic wave (EMW) is a self-propagating wave of the electromag...
Physics: Absolute zero
Absolute zero Absolute zero is the lowest theoretically possible temperature, a state at which a system's internal energy, and in ideal cases entropy, reach th...
Physics: Gravity well
Gravity well A sphere of influence (SOI) in astrodynamics and astronomy is the oblate spheroid-shaped region where a particular celestial body exerts the main ...
Physics: Inflation (cosmology)
Inflation (cosmology) In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the ...
Physics: Rutherford scattering experiments
Rutherford scattering experiments By: Ernest Rutherford (1911) The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists ...
Physics: Electromagnetic spectrum
Electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength....
Physics: John Mather
John Mather (1946) John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist....
Physics: Quantum tunnelling
Quantum tunnelling In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an e...
Physics: Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet Ultraviolet radiation (UV; sometimes called ultraviolet light) is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 100–400 nanometers, shorter than that...
Physics: Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (1929) Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the develo...
Physics: Huygens proposes wave theory of light
1678: Huygens proposes wave theory of light Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, ...
Physics: Mirror
Mirror A mirror, also known as a looking glass, is an object that reflects an image....
Physics: Neutron star
Neutron star A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star....
Physics: 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: François Englert, Peter W. Higgs The theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the...
Physics: Rontgen discovers X-rays
1895: Rontgen discovers X-rays An X-ray is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer ...
Physics: 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics
1926 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Jean Baptiste Perrin His work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentat...
Physics: Adam Riess
Adam Riess (1969) Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and t...
Physics: Kinematic equation
Kinematic equation Form: s = ut + ½at² In physics, classical mechanics is a theory that describes the effect of forces on the motion of macroscopic objects and...
Physics: Orbit
Orbit In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object under the influence of an attracting force....
Physics: 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics
1939 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Ernest Orlando Lawrence The invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially wi...
Physics: Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish (1731) Henry Cavendish ( KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist....
Physics: Planck constant
Planck constant h = 6.626×10⁻³⁴ J·s The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by h {\displaystyle h} , is a...
Physics: 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics
1906 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Joseph John Thomson In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the condu...
Physics: Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (1926) Mohammad Abdus Salam (; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate....
Physics: Refraction
Refraction In physics, refraction is the redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another....
Physics: Gravitational constant
Gravitational constant G = 6.674×10⁻¹¹ m³/(kg·s²) The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant that gives the strength of the gravitational fie...
Physics: Schrodinger formulates wave equation
1926: Schrodinger formulates wave equation The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic qua...
Physics: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura The invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled b...
Physics: 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
1986 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer His fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first ele...
Physics: Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli (1608) Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Itali...
Physics: 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
1985 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Klaus von Klitzing The discovery of the quantized Hall effect....
Physics: Angular momentum
Angular momentum Form: L = mvr Angular momentum (sometimes called moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum....
Physics: Maxwell's equations
Maxwell's equations Maxwell's equations are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of c...
Physics: Voltage
Voltage Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension, is the difference in electric potential between two p...
Physics: 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
1903 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, née Skłodowska In recognition of the extraordinary services he has...
Physics: Hugh Politzer
Hugh Politzer (1949) Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist....
Physics: Bernoulli's principle
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, speed and height....
Physics: Power (electricity)
Power (electricity) Form: P = IV Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit....
Physics: Integrated circuit
Integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a compact assembly of electronic circuits formed from various elect...
Physics: Causality (physics)
Causality (physics) In physics, causality requires the cause of an event to be in the past light cone of the result and to be ultimately reducible to fundamen...
Physics: Masatoshi Koshiba
Masatoshi Koshiba (1926) Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi; 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of...
Physics: Atom
Atom Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements and the fundamental building blocks of matter....
Physics: John Bell
John Bell (1928) John Bell may refer to:....
Physics: Wu experiment
Wu experiment By: Chien-Shiung Wu (1956) The Wu experiment was a particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese-American physicist Ch...
Physics: Quark model proposed
1964: Quark model proposed A quark ( ) is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter....
Physics: Helmholtz formulates energy conservation
1847: Helmholtz formulates energy conservation The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is sai...
Physics: Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821) Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (; German: [ˈhɛʁman fɔn ˈhɛlmˌhɔlts]; 31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894; "von" since 1883) ...
Physics: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( KOO-lom, -lohm, koo-LOM, -LOHM; French: [kulɔ̃]; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French...
Physics: Superconductivity
Superconductivity Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fi...
Physics: Doppler effect
Doppler effect The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency or, equivalently, the period of a wave in relation to an observer who is ...
Physics: Electric field
Electric field An electric field (sometimes called E-field) is a physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles such as electrons....
Physics: Juan Maldacena
Juan Maldacena (1968) Juan Martín Maldacena (Latin American Spanish: [maldaˈsena]; born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P...
Physics: Planck time
Planck time tp = 5.391×10⁻⁴⁴ s In particle physics and physical cosmology, Planck units are a system of units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of fo...
Physics: Molecule
Molecule A molecule is a group of two or more atoms that are held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or ...
Physics: Complementarity (physics)
Complementarity (physics) In physics, complementarity is a conceptual aspect of quantum mechanics that Niels Bohr regarded as an essential feature of the theor...
Physics: George Gabriel Stokes
George Gabriel Stokes (1819) Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet ( stohks; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903), was an Irish mathematician and physicist....
Physics: Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (1932) Melvin Schwartz ( SHWORTS; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist....
Physics: Edward Teller
Edward Teller (1908) Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical en...
Physics: Equivalence principle
Equivalence principle The equivalence principle is the hypothesis that the observed equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is a consequence of nature....
Physics: Planck temperature
Planck temperature Tp = 1.417×10³² K In particle physics and physical cosmology, Planck units are a system of units of measurement defined exclusively in terms...
Physics: James Chadwick
James Chadwick (1891) Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 ...
Physics: Torricelli's theorem
Torricelli's theorem Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from a hole to th...
Physics: 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics
1984 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer Their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the ...
Physics: Heisenberg develops matrix mechanics
1925: Heisenberg develops matrix mechanics Matrix mechanics is a formulation of quantum mechanics created by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan in...
Physics: 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
1952 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell Their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and dis...
Physics: 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics
1949 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Hideki Yukawa His prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces....
Physics: Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon wherein the quantum state of each particle in a group cannot be described independently of the stat...
Physics: Radioactivity
Radioactivity Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an ...
Physics: 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1931 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Fourier's law of heat conduction
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Physics: 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Torque
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Physics: Rutherford proposes nuclear atom
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Physics: 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Semiconductor
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Physics: Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
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Physics: Second law of thermodynamics
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Physics: 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Compton wavelength
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Physics: Henry Moseley
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Physics: 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: De Broglie hypothesis
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Physics: Energy
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Physics: Electron mass
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Physics: Max Born
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Physics: Gas constant
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Physics: Third law of thermodynamics
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Physics: 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Ivar Giaever
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Physics: Wien's displacement law
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Physics: 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: de Broglie proposes matter waves
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Physics: 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Radio wave
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Physics: 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics
1943 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Otto Stern His contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of...
Physics: Michael Faraday
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Physics: Thomas Young
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Physics: Standard Model
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Physics: 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Frank Wilczek
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Physics: 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Big Bang
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Physics: Wavelength
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Physics: W and Z bosons observed at CERN
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Physics: Mach number
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Physics: 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Lee Smolin
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Physics: Frederick Reines
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Physics: Ohm's law
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Physics: Oil drop experiment
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Physics: 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics
1922 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Niels Henrik David Bohr His services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating fro...
Physics: Magnetic flux quantum
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Physics: Makoto Kobayashi
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Physics: Antimatter
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Physics: Planck mass
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Physics: 1941 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Frequency
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Physics: Single-slit diffraction
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Physics: Interference (wave propagation)
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Physics: Superposition principle
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Physics: CPT symmetry
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Physics: Toshihide Maskawa
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Physics: Electron volts (energy unit)
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Physics: 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics
1930 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman His work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after h...
Physics: Edwin Hubble
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Physics: Torricelli's experiment
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Physics: 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics
1992 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Georges Charpak His invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber....
Physics: Werner Heisenberg
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Physics: 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics
1936 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson His discovery of cosmic radiation / for his discovery of the positron....
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Physics: Kinetic energy
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Physics: 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: Power (physics)
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Physics: Higgs boson
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Physics: Diffraction
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Physics: Brian Josephson
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Physics: Volta invents the electric battery
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Physics: 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: First observation of gravitational waves
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Physics: Erwin Schrodinger
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Physics: Edward Witten
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Physics: Power
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Physics: 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Physics: 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics
1967 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to: Hans Albrecht Bethe His contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the en...
Physics: Photon
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Physics: 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics
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