Today in Physicist History (Part 4)
Sub-Topics: Andrei Sakharov - Galileo Galilei - Isaac Newton - Nikola Tesla
Historical Events
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Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 369 of 369
1921-08-08 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
1922-03-26 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1922-06-19 - Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1922-09-22 - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1923-02-02 - Peter Fowler, physicist
1923-05-06 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist
1923-12-15 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
1924-07-11 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1925-02-09 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
1925-03-12 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925-04-13 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1925-09-25 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925-10-14 - Louis Cohen, physicist
1926-07-09 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926-09-21 - Donald A Glaser, physicist (Nobel-1960)
1926-12-09 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1927-04-15 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1927-04-20 - Karl Muller, Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1927-04-29 - Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
1927-05-09 - Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
1928-02-01 - Sam Edwards, physicist
1929-01-31 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1929-09-15 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
1930-02-28 - Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1930-03-15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930-11-11 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1931-05-31 - John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1931-07-11 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932-03-17 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1932-10-14 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1932-10-24 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1933-06-06 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1933-09-27 - Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
1934-03-04 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934-12-30 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
1936-01-10 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1936-01-27 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1936-06-08 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1937-06-26 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938-03-26 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938-11-26 - Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1939-05-02 - Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
1940-01-04 - Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973)
1940-05-18 - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist
1940-06-01 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
1941-06-20 - Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
1941-12-02 - Paul C W Chu, China, physicist (superconductivity)
1942-01-08 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1942-12-28 - Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
1943-03-01 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
1943-03-01 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1943-06-28 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1944-12-19 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1945-08-01 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1945-10-25 - David Norman Schramm, physicist
1946-03-28 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1946-07-05 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laurete
1947-04-11 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1947-07-20 - Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1948-01-20 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1948-09-13 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
1950-05-16 - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1951-10-19 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
1952-11-05 - Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
1957-03-18 - Christer Fuglesang, Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957-10-21 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1958-04-23 - Max Planck, physicist (Quanta Physics)
1963-02-09 - Brian Greene, American physicist
1973-12-05 - Luboš Motl, Czech physicist
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 316 of 316
2004-03-04 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2004-08-01 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2004-10-05 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2005-03-06 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2005-03-08 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
2005-04-22 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
2005-08-04 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2005-08-31 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2006-02-28 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2006-05-31 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006-08-09 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006-08-28 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007-01-05 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2007-04-28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2007-05-18 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
2008-04-13 - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
