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This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
Lamb–Retherford experiment discovered Lamb shift (1947), which led to the development of quantum electrodynamics. Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines confirm the existence of the neutrino in the neutrino experiment. (1955) Claus Jönsson's double-slit experiment with electrons. (1961) The quantum Hall effect, discovered in 1980 by Klaus von ...
Poincaré discovered the remaining relativistic velocity transformations and recorded them in a letter to Hendrik Lorentz in 1905. Thus he obtained perfect invariance of all of Maxwell's equations , an important step in the formulation of the theory of special relativity , for which he is also credited with laying down the foundations for, [ 9 ...
Leavitt discovered Cepheid variables, the "Standard Candle" by which Hubble later determined galactic distances. Einstein's general theory of relativity is usually recognized as the theoretic foundation of modern cosmology. Physics (modern) Galileo Galilei [148] His development and extensive use of experimental physics, e.g. the telescope ...
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.
1998 – The first complete Einstein ring, B1938+666, discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope and MERLIN. [226] [227] 1998-99 – Scientists discover that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. [228] [229] 1999 – Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour introduce the effective one-body formalism. [230]
In the 19th century, the basic laws of electromagnetism and statistical mechanics were discovered. Physics was transformed by the discoveries of quantum mechanics, relativity, and atomic theory at the beginning of the 20th century. Physics today may be divided loosely into classical physics and modern physics.
A statement falsely attributed to Kelvin is: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." This has been widely misattributed to Kelvin since the 1980s, either without citation or stating that it was made in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science ...