Portal:Physics/Anniversaries
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This is a list of notable anniversaries in Physics.
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[edit] January
- 1 January 1876 - Harriet Brooks was born.
- 2 January 1822 - Rudolf Clausius was born.
- 04 January 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton was born.
- 15 January 1908 - Edward Teller was born.
[edit] February
- 15 February 1564 – Galileo Galilei's birthday
- 15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
- 18 February 1967 – Robert Oppenheimer died
- 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss died
- 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling's birthday
[edit] March
- 1 March 1966 – first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
- 14 March 1879 – Albert Einstein's birthday
- 24 March 1993 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
[edit] April
- 1 April 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
- 12 April 1633 – Galileo Galilei's trial starts
- 15 April 1707 – Leonhard Euler's birthday
- 18 April 1955 – Albert Einstein died
- 22 April 1904 – Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
- 24 April 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope launched
- 30 April 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
[edit] May
- 11 May 1918 – Richard Feynman's birthday
[edit] June
- 13 June 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell's birthday
[edit] July
- July 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
- 16 July 1945 – Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
- 23 July 1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
[edit] August
- 8 August 1902 - Paul Dirac's birthday
[edit] September
- 7 September 1783 - Leonhard Euler died
- 9 September 2003 - Edward Teller died
[edit] October
[edit] November
- November 1915 – Albert Einstein formulates GR
- 9 November 1934 – Carl Sagan's birthday
- 9 November 1676 – using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
[edit] December
- December 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus.
- December 1995 – Hubble Deep Field images taken.
- 22 December 1968 – Apollo 8 launched.
