Subcategories - Physics, Physicists

  1. Ernest Rutherford
  2. Erwin Schrödinger
  3. Esaki Demonstrates Electron Tunneling in Semiconductors
  4. Evangelista Torricelli
  5. Fabry Quantifies Ozone in the Upper Atmosphere
  6. Faraday Converts Magnetic Force into Electricity
  7. Fermi Creates the First Controlled Nuclear Fission Chain Reaction
  8. Fermi Proposes the Neutrino Theory of Beta Decay
  9. The First Atomic Bomb Is Successfully Detonated
  10. First Commercial Atomic-Powered Ship, Savannah, Is Launched
  11. The First Controlled Fission Reaction Occurs
  12. The First Laser Is Developed in the United States
  13. First Tidal Power Plant Begins Operation
  14. Fleming Files a Patent for the First Vacuum Tube
  15. Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie Develop the First Artificial Radioactive Element
  16. Gabor Develops the Basic Concept of Holography
  17. Galileo Confirms Heliocentric Model of the Solar System
  18. Gamow and Associates Develop the Big Bang Theory
  19. Gamow Explains Radioactive Alpha Decay
  20. Gamow Explains Radioactive Alpha-Decay with Quantum Tunneling
  21. Gaspard Monge
  22. Geiger and Rutherford Develop the Geiger Counter
  23. Gell-Mann Formulates the Theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
  24. Georges Lemaître
  25. Georgi and Glashow Develop the First Grand Unified Theory
  26. Giacconi and Associates Discover the First Known X-Ray Source Outside the Solar System
  27. Glenn Theodore Seaborg
  28. Goddard Launches the First Liquid Fuel Propelled Rocket
  29. Guglielmo Marconi
  30. Gustav Hertz
  31. Hahn Splits an Atom of Uranium
  32. Hale Constructs the Largest Telescope of the Time
  33. Hans Albrecht Bethe
  34. Heeger and MacDiarmid Discover That Iodine-Doped Polyacetylene Conducts Electricity
  35. Heisenberg Articulates the Uncertainty Principle
  36. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
  37. Henri Poincaré
  38. Hermann von Helmholtz
  39. Hess Discovers Cosmic Rays Through High-Altitude Ionizations
  40. Hideki Yukawa
  41. Hofstadter Discovers That Protons and Neutrons Each Have a Structure
  42. Hounsfield Introduces a CAT Scanner That Can See Clearly into the Body
  43. Hydrogen Bomb Is Detonated
  44. Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
  45. Isidor Isaac Rabi
  46. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  47. James Chadwick
  48. James Clerk Maxwell
  49. Jean Buridan
  50. Jean le Rond d’Alembert