This Week in Physics History: May 7 - 13
Monday May 7, 2007
- May 11, 1918 - American physicist Richard Phillips Feynman is born.
- May 9, 1927 - German biophysicist Manfred Eigen is born. Eigen recieved the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in using very short pulses of energy to induce super fast chemical reactions.
- May 9, 1931 - Polish-born American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson dies. Michelson was the first American physicist to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences, with his 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for his work in the famed Michelson-Morley experiment, which helped to disprove the concept of ether and, thus, laid the foundation for wave particle duality.
- May 7, 1952 - Geoffrey W.A. Dummer first publishes the concept of the integrated circuit, which goes on to become the basis for all modern computers.
- May 7, 1998 - South African physicist Allan MacLeod Cormack dies. Cormack won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography (a medical imaging technique).
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