Today in Physics History
Sub-Topics: Astrophysicist - Biophysicist - Geophysicist - Nuclear Physicist - Physicist - Plasma Physicist - Theoretical Physicist
Historical Events
Results 1 - 19 of 19
1903-12-10 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1905-09-27 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1910-12-10 - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1913-12-10 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1937-11-11 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson
1939-11-09 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1945-05-03 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1951-03-25 - E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1953-11-05 - Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
1954-11-03 - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1956-11-01 - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1960-07-20 - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
1967-10-18 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
1968-10-30 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1981-10-19 - Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1988-10-19 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1991-11-01 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1993-10-13 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
2004-02-13 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Famous Birthdays
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1862-03-04 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
1882-10-05 - Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics)
1885-10-07 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1905-09-03 - Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics)
1958-04-23 - Max Planck, physicist (Quanta Physics)
1961-11-10 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
Famous Deaths
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1934-07-04 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1940-10-08 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1964-05-30 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1968-10-27 - Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89
1984-02-20 - Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
1984-10-14 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1995-01-01 - Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
2002-01-08 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
