This Week in Physics History: April 7 - 13
Monday April 7, 2008
- 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 7, 1827 - English chemist John Walker sells the first friction match, invented a year earlier.
- April 11, 1905 - Albert Einstein reveals his theory of special relativity in a paper published in Annalen der Physik.
- April 12, 1971 - Soviet physicist Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm dies. Tamm received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for the co-discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effect, otherwise known as Cherenkov radiation.
- April 8, 1984 - Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa dies. Kapitsa was jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in low temperature physics, including discovery of the principle of superfluidity.
Comments
No comments yet. Leave a Comment