This Week in Physics: Nov. 16 - 12
Monday November 6, 2006
- Nov. 7, 1492 - A meteorite crashes to Earth around noon in a wheat field near Ensisheim, Alsace. The Ensisheim Meteorite is the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.
- Nov. 8, 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, discovery of the Rydberg State of an atom, is born.
- Nov. 7, 1867 - Maria Sklodowska is born, remembered to posterity as Marie Curie, pioneer in the study of radioactivity. To date, she is the only person to have earned Nobel prizes in two different fields - physics & chemistry.
- Nov. 7, 1878 - Lise Meitner is born. Meitner did ground-breaking work on the discovery of nuclear fission, but was controversially not included in the 1944 Nobel award for the discovery.
- Nov. 9, 1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, primarily for his work in explaining the photoelectric effect.
- Nov. 9, 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and author, is born. Sagan became best known as a populizer of science through television specials, and both fiction and non-fiction writing. He was the author of the science fiction novel Contact, which was later made into a film starring Jodie Foster.
- Nov. 6, 1944 - The Hanford Atomic Facility first produces plutonium.
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