This Week in Physics History: March 24 - 30
Wednesday March 26, 2008
- 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.
- 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.
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