On December 4, 1900, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck theorized that light radiates not as waves (as Isaac Newton claimed), but that light was made of particles or packets called quanta. Continue reading
Category: Physics
Discovery of Antimatter
Physicist Carl David Anderson discovered antimatter in 1932 in a magnetic cloud chamber at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Continue reading
Magnetism Treatise
Magnetism treatise published Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete (Letter of Peter Peregrinus de Maricourt to Sygehus of Foucaucourt, Soldier, on the Magnet) in the mid-13th century. Continue reading
Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction Demonstration
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi created the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstration on December 2, 1942 Continue reading
Eugene Wigner Founder of Quantum Mechanics
Eugene Paul Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and nuclear engineer was a founder of quantum mechanics. Continue reading
Advanced Atomic Theory
Greek philosopher Leucippus of Miletus of Turkey, proposed the first atomic theory back in 500 BCE, Continue reading
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was an English chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. Continue reading
Invention of the Mass Spectrometer
Joseph John Thomson invented the mass spectrometer or parabola spectrograph in Cambridge, England in 1913. Continue reading
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, Continue reading
Gravity Experiment Proves Different Masses Fall the Same
Simon Stevin, Dutch engineer, inventor, and mathematician published results from a gravity experiment in 1586, whereby proving that objects with different masses fall at the same speed. Continue reading