This Week in Physics History: March 31 - April 6
Sunday April 6, 2008
- Apr. 6, 648 B.C. - Earliest solar eclipse was recorded by the ancient Greeks.
- Apr. 5, 1804 - The High Possil Meteorite, the first recorded meteorite fall in Scotland, strikes in Possil, Scotland. Scotland has had only 4 recorded meteorite, of which this is the first. The High Possil Meteorite was also the first of a series of 19th century meteorite falls, the study of which may be called the beginning of modern meteorite science.
- Apr. 5, 1929 - Norwegian physicist Ivar Giaever is born. Giaever's work in solid-state physics, especially in discovering tunnelling, won him the 1973 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.
- Apr. 6, 1949 - Germany physicist Horst Ludwig Stoermer is born. Stoermer won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for work in the fractional quantum Hall effect, as it relates to materials at incredibly small temperatures placed in a magnetic field.
- Apr. 1, 1968 - Soviet 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.
Comments
No comments yet. Leave a Comment