Subcategories - Physics, Physicists
- Tunable, Continuous Wave Visible Lasers Are Developed
- The United States Opens the First Commercial Nuclear Power Plant
- University of California Physicists Develop the First Synchrocyclotron
- Van Allen Discovers the Earth’s Radiation Belts
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry Is Developed for High-Resolution Astronomy and Geodesy
- Vilhelm Bjerknes
- Von Klitzing Discovers the Quantized Hall Effect
- Von Weizsäcker Finalizes His Quantitative Theory of Planetary Formation
- Walther Bothe
- Watson and Crick Develop the Double-Helix Model for DNA
- Werner Heisenberg
- Wheeler Names the Phenomenon “Black Holes”
- Wiechert Invents the Inverted Pendulum Seismography
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Willem Einthoven
- Wolfgang Pauli
- The World’s First Breeder Reactor Produces Electricity While Generating New Fuel
- The World’s First Nuclear Reactor Is Activated
- X Rays from a Synchrotron Are First Used in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
- X-Ray Crystallography Is Developed by the Braggs
- Yukawa Proposes Existence of Mesons
