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This is a list of notable anniversaries in Physics.

Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December

[edit] January

• 1 January 1876 - Harriet Brooks was born.
• 2 January 1822 - Rudolf Clausius was born.
• 4 January 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton was born.
• 8 January 1942 - Stephen Hawking 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
• 25 April 1990 - Hubble Space Telescope deployed from the shuttle Discovery
• 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

• 1 October 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA

[edit] November

• November 1915 – Albert Einstein formulates GR
• 9 November 1934 – Carl Sagan's birthday
• 9 November 1676 – using his first quantitative measurement 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.