Experimental physics

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Experimental physics is the part of physics that deals with experiments and observations pertaining to natural/physical phenomena, as opposed to theoretical physics.

See the timelines below for listings of physics experiments.

1. Timeline of classical mechanics
2. Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
3. Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity
4. Timeline of nuclear fusion
5. Timeline of other background radiation fields
6. Timeline of particle physics technology
7. Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
8. Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
9. Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes
10. Timeline of particle discoveries

People such as Galileo Galilei, Michael Faraday, Ernst Mach, Ernest Rutherford, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Sir Joseph John Thomson, Max von Laue, William Lawrence Bragg, Albert Abraham Michelson, Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Enrico Fermi, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, William Bradford Shockley, and John Bardeen were experimental physicists.