Physics History

Hannes Alfvén, and Louis Néel shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics for contributions to plasma physics and to magnetism applied to solid state physics.

Apr 30, 2012 – Paul A. Heckert

Murray Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with quarks and the eightfold way to classify elementary particles.

Mar 22, 2012 – Paul A. Heckert

Luis Alvarez won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for improving the design of bubble chambers to allow the discovery of very short lived particles.

Feb 29, 2012 – Paul A. Heckert

Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess won the 2011 Nobel prize in physics for discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Oct 14, 2011 – Paul A. Heckert

Galileo theorized that the tides were caused not by the moon or sun, but by the movement of the earth on its axis and around the sun.

Mar 16, 2011 – Mark Ulett