Subcategories - Physics, Physicists
- Albert A. Michelson
- Alessandro Volta
- Alfred Wegener
- Alhazen
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Andrei Sakharov
- Archimedes
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Aston Builds the First Mass Spectrograph and Discovers Isotopes
- Atomic Bombing of Japan
- Atomic-Powered Submarine Nautilus Is Launched
- Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
- Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements
- The Becquerel Family
- Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
- Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
- Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
- Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
- Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
- The Bernoulli Family
- Blaise Pascal
- Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
- Carlson Invents Xerography
- Chadwick Discovers the Neutron
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes
- Charles-Édouard Guillaume
- Cherenkov Discovers the Cherenkov Effect
- The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes
- Christiaan Huygens
- Cohen Begins Research on Neutron Bomb
- Colin Maclaurin
- Compton Discovers the Wavelength Change of Scattered X Rays
- Corning Glass Works Trademarks Pyrex and Offers Pyrex Cookware for Commercial Sale
- Crystal Sets Lead to Modern Radios
- Davis Constructs a Solar Neutrino Detector
- De Broglie Introduces the Theory of Wave-Particle Duality
- Denis Papin
- Eddington Publishes The Internal Constitution of the Stars
- Edward Teller
- Edwin Mattison McMillan
- Einstein Completes His Theory of General Relativity
- Einstein Develops His Theory of the Photoelectric Effect
- Einstein Publishes His Special Theory of Relativity
- Elster and Geitel Demonstrate Radioactivity in Rocks, Springs, and Air
- Elster and Geitel Devise the First Practical Photoelectric Cell
- Émile Picard
- Enrico Fermi
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence
