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This Month in Physics History

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2008
May 1801: Thomas Young’s double slit experiment
 
April 1, 1948: The alpha beta gamma paper explains the origin of the elements
 
March 1, 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity
 
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
 
Edwin Hubble Expands our View of the Universe
 
2007
December 1938: Discovery of nuclear fission
 
November 1887: Michelson and Morley report their failure to detect the luminiferous ether
 
October, 1957: Soviets launch first satellites into orbit
 
September 1904: Robert Wood debunks N-rays
 
July 1957: Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer submit their paper, “Theory of Superconductivity”
 
June 1876: Edward Bouchet becomes the first African American PhD in physics
 
May 1932: Chadwick reports the discovery of the neutron
 
April 1911: Kamerlingh Onnes Begins work on Superconductivity
 
March 16, 1938: Katharine Blodgett patents anti-reflective coatings
 
February 3, 1851: Léon Foucault demonstrates that Earth rotates
 
January 1925: Wolfgang Pauli announces the exclusion principle
 
2006
December 23, 1750: Ben Franklin Attempts to Electrocute a Turkey
 
November, 1783: Intrepid physicist is first to fly
 
August 1913: Robert Millikan Reports His Oil Drop Results
 
July 3, 1977: MRI uses fundamental physics for clinical diagnosis
 
June, ca. 240 B.C. Eratosthenes Measures the Earth
 
May 1911: Rutherford and the Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
 
April 1935: British Patent for Radar System for Air Defense Granted to Robert Watson-Witt
 
March 20, 1800: Volta describes the electric battery
 
February 1968: Discovery of pulsars announced.
 
January 1938: Discovery of Superfluidity
 
2005
Einstein's quest for a unified theory
 
Einstein and the EPR Paradox
 
Einstein Lays Theoretical Foundation for BECs
 
Einstein predicts stimulated emission
 
Einstein's Biggest Blunder
 
Guest columnist Nina Byers addresses the issue of Einstein's attitudes towards women.
 
Einstein and general relativity
 
Energy and mass are equivalent
 
Einstein and Special Relativity
 
Einstein and Brownian Motion
 
Einstein and The Photoelectric Effect
 
2004
December 1898: The Curies Discover Radium
 
November 25, 1975: Patent for Full-body CAT Scan
 
October 1807: Invention of the camera lucida
 
August 1932: Discovery of the Positron
 
July 13, 1901: Santos-Dumont Flies Around Eiffel Tower
 
June 5, 1995: First Bose Einstein Condensate
 
May 1816: Germain Forms Theory of Elastic Surfaces
 
April 15, 1452: The Birth of a Visionary — Leonardo da Vinci
 
Lens Crafters Circa 1590:The Invention of the Microscope
 
February 9, 1990: Death of George de Mestral
 
January 1884: First U.S. Patent for a Roller Coaster
 
2003
December 1958: Invention of the Laser
 
November 1, 1952: Teller and the Hydrogen Bomb
 
October 22, 1938: "Invention of Xerography"
 
September 1981: Invention of the scanning tunneling microscope
 
July 16, 1945: First nuclear bomb exploded
 
June 1931: Lawrence and the First Cyclotron
 
May 1888: Tesla Patents "Electric Transmission of Power"
 
April 18, 1916: Langmuir Patents the Incandescent Lamp
 
March 13, 1781: Herschel discovers the planet Uranus
 
February 1987: Discovery of Supernova 1987A
 
Circa January 1961: Lorenz and the Butterfly Effect
 
2002
December 14, 1989: Death of Andrei Sakharov
 
November 1872: Death of Mary Somerville
 
October 1900: Max Planck's formula for black body radiation.
 
August 1946: The Moore School Lectures
 
June 1963: Discovery of the cosmic microwave background
 
June 1871: Maxwell and his Demon
 
May 24, 1844: Morse and the telegraph.
 
April 1995: Discovery of the top quark at Fermilab
 
Circa March 1935: Schroedinger's Paradoxical Cat
 
February 1996: Kasparov vs. Deep Blue
 
January 1665: Publication of Hooke's Micrographia
 
2001
November 8, 1895: Roentgen's Discovery of X-Rays
 
October 1871: Babbage's Successful Failure—The First Computer
 
September 4, 1821 and August 29, 1831: Faraday and electromagnetism.
 
July 20, 1969: The first manned lunar landing.
 
June 29, 1954: Oppenheimer's Security Clearance Revoked
 
May 1609: Galileo first hears about the telescope.
 
April 1946: First Concept of Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
 
March 16, 1926: Launch of the First Liquid Fuel Rocket
 
February 2, 1893: Edison Records First Sneeze on Film
 
January 28, 1986: The Challenger Explosion
 
2000
December 29, 1959: Feynman's Classic CalTech Lecture
 
November 17 - December 23, 1947: Invention of the First Transistor
 
October 1897: The Discovery of the Electron
 
September 1905: Einstein's Most Famous Formula
 
July 5, 1687: Publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia
 
June 2 - 4, 1947: The Shelter Island Conference
 
May 10, 1752: First experiment to draw electricity from lightning
 
April 26, 1920: The Shapley-Curtis Debate
 
March 10, 1876: The First Transmission of Speech
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