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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Basic timeline of physics

This post is a basic timeline of physics. There are 32 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 5th century BC: Leucippus and Democritus propose the existence of atoms
• 1589-1592: Galileo Galilei performs falling object experiments
• 1609-1619: Johannes Kepler discovers the laws of planetary motion
• 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• 1704: Isaac Newton publishes Opticks
• 1801: Thomas Young performs the double-slit experiment
• 1805: John Dalton publishes atomic weight estimates
• 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
• 1861-1862: James Clerk Maxwell publishes Maxwell's equations
• 1895: Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
• 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radiation
• 1896: Ludwig Boltzmann publishes a statistical interpretation of thermodynamics
• 1897: J.J. Thompson discovers the electron
• 1900: Max Planck discovers quanta and the Planck constant
• 1905: Albert Einstein discovers special relativity
• 1910: Albert Einstein discovers general relativity
• 1911: Ernst Rutherford discovers the nucleus of the atom
• 1913: Niels Bohr publishes the Bohr model of the atom
• 1925: Erwin Schrodinger discovers the Schrodinger equation
• 1927: Werner Heisenberg discovers the uncertainty principle
• 1927: Georges Lemaitre proposes the big bang theory
• 1928: Paul Dirac discovers the Dirac equation and antimatter
• 1932: James Chadwick discovers the neutron
• 1948: Richard Feynman introduces Feynman diagrams
• 1957: Hugh Everett III proposes the many-worlds interpretation
• 1964: Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig discover the quark
• 1967: Stephen Weinberg and Abdus Salam discover the standard model
• 1968: Gabriele Venziano discovers string theory
• 1974: Stephen Hawking discovers Hawking radiation
• 1995: Edward Witten discovers M-Theory
• 2012: Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN
• 2016: Gravitational waves are discovered by LIGO