This Week in Physics History: Mar. 26 - Apr. 1
Monday March 26, 2007
- Mar. 27, 1845 - German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen is born. Roentgen produced and detected x-rays, which won him the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901.
- Mar. 28, 1930 - American physicist Jerome Isaac Friedman is born. Friedman's work presented some of the earliest experimental evidence for quarks, for which he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Apr. 1, 1933 - French physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is born. His work in the development of using laser light to trap and cool atoms earned him the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, along with Steven Chu & William Daniel Phillips.
- Mar. 28, 1935 - Robert Goddard launched the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.
- Mar. 29, 1941 - American astrophysicist Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., is born. Taylor won the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."
- Mar. 26, 1951 - American physicist Carl Edwin Wieman is born. Wieman produced the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995, together with Eric Cornell, for which the pair received the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics.
- Apr. 1, 1968 - Soviet (and Jewish) theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau dies. Landau performed extensive work in quantum physics, especially in the development of superfluidity theory. For this work, he received the 1962 Nobel Prize in physics.
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