Today in Physicist History (Part 3)
Sub-Topics: Andrei Sakharov - Galileo Galilei - Isaac Newton - Nikola Tesla
Historical Events
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Famous Birthdays
Results 201 - 300 of 369
1891-03-24 - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1891-10-20 - James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron)
1892-04-13 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar)
1892-04-27 - Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)
1892-08-15 - Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1892-09-06 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Appleton-layer)
1892-09-10 - Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays)
1893-04-29 - Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1894-07-09 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1894-09-15 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1896-02-04 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
1896-06-07 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1896-08-09 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1897-05-27 - John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)
1897-09-12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1897-11-18 - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
1898-02-11 - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1898-02-25 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1898-06-17 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1898-07-29 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)
1898-11-19 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
1898-12-21 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
1898-12-22 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899-05-14 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899-11-03 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900-01-05 - Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5]
1900-03-19 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1900-04-25 - Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945)
1901-03-27 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901-09-29 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
1901-12-05 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 32)
1901-12-20 - Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
1902-02-10 - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
1902-08-08 - Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933)
1902-10-18 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
1902-11-17 - Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist (A Bomb, Nobel 1963)
1903-01-12 - Igor_Kurchatov, Russian physicist , (d. 1960)
1903-01-22 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1903-05-22 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1903-10-06 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1903-12-05 - Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
1904-02-27 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
1904-05-24 - Patrick Johnson, physicist
1904-07-27 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
1904-10-01 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1904-12-09 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
1904-12-22 - Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970)
1904-12-25 - Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
1905-09-03 - Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics)
1905-09-30 - Nevill Francis Mott, physicist
1906-07-02 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker
1907-01-23 - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1907-06-05 - Rudolf Peieris, physicist
1907-06-25 - J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist (atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963)
1907-09-18 - Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize)
1907-12-05 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1908-05-23 - John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
1909-01-22 - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
1909-06-24 - William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb)
1909-10-19 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
1909-10-30 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1910-02-13 - William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
1910-10-01 - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1910-10-25 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1910-11-20 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1911-01-17 - Luis W Alvarez, US, physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968) [or Jun 13]
1911-03-06 - Charles Frank, physicist
1911-06-13 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968) [or Jan 17]
1911-07-09 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1912-05-30 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912-08-04 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912-08-30 - Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1913-04-27 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
1913-07-12 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1913-08-22 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1914-02-05 - Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963)
1914-03-04 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1914-03-08 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
1914-07-02 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1914-09-07 - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
1915-05-23 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist
1915-06-11 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)
1915-07-08 - Charles Hard Townes, Greenville SC, physicist (developed lasers)
1916-12-15 - Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
1917-02-24 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1917-12-09 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1917-12-20 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918-02-12 - Julian S Schwinger, US physicist
1918-05-01 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1918-05-11 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)
1918-05-19 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
1918-05-21 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919-08-12 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1919-09-21 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919-10-15 - Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985)
1919-10-17 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1920-07-10 - Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer (antiproton, Nobel-1959)
1921-05-21 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1921-06-19 - Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1921-07-19 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 316
1968-07-28 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1968-08-19 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1969-08-18 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81
1970-01-05 - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1970-11-21 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1971-12-31 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919)
1973-02-06 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74
1973-02-11 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1973-12-06 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81
1974-02-04 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1974-07-13 - Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1974-07-24 - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1974-11-16 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91
1975-02-03 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975-08-25 - John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1975-10-30 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1976-02-01 - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1976-03-04 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977-02-05 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
1977-07-04 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1978-09-26 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979-02-09 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1979-07-08 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1980-01-08 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1980-02-16 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
1980-10-15 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
1981-09-08 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1983-09-10 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1984-01-07 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1984-04-08 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1984-10-20 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985-02-03 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1986-05-31 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1986-10-10 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1986-10-31 - Robert S Mulliken, US physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
1987-03-19 - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987-10-13 - Walter H Brattain, US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
1987-12-02 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
1988-01-28 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1988-02-15 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
1988-03-08 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1988-09-11 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77
1989-08-12 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989-12-14 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989-12-28 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1990-11-10 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1990-11-17 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1991-01-11 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1991-01-30 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1992-03-16 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1992-05-15 - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1992-10-27 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1992-11-05 - Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1993-09-24 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993-12-06 - Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1993-12-25 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
1994-01-06 - Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
1994-06-03 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
1994-09-27 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
1995-01-01 - Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
1995-03-14 - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1995-04-02 - Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1995-08-21 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84
1996-05-24 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83
1996-07-05 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
1996-07-14 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
1996-08-08 - Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90
1996-10-19 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
1996-10-29 - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
1996-11-08 - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1997-02-16 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
1997-03-04 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1997-07-28 - Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71
1997-08-20 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1997-12-19 - David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
1998-05-07 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
1998-05-22 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
1998-08-26 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1998-12-11 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1999-02-15 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
1999-04-28 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
1999-10-17 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
1999-10-27 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
2000-07-28 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2000-11-17 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001-01-14 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2001-03-31 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2001-07-01 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2001-12-05 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
2002-01-16 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2002-02-21 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002-09-21 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
2002-10-02 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2002-11-02 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2003-01-12 - Allan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2003-05-28 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003-09-09 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2003-10-13 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003-10-15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003-12-31 - Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (b. 1898)
