This Week in Physics History: April 9 - 15
Monday April 9, 2007
- April 12, 1633 - The Inquisition of the Catholic Church begins the formal inquest of Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
- April 10, 1790 - The United States patent system is officially established.
- April 15, 1874 - German physicist Johannes Stark is born. Stark's work in discovering the doppler effect in canal rays and splitting of spectral lines in electric fields (known as the Stark effect) earned him the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- April 15, 1892 - The General Electric Company is formed. In the years since, GE carries out research which results in several technological and scientific advances.
- April 11, 1905 - Albert Einstein reveals his theory of special relativity in a paper published in Annalen der Physik.
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