This Week in Physics History: June 16 - 22
Monday June 16, 2008
- June 21, 1781 - French mathematician and physicist Simeon-Denis Poisson is born. Poissons mathematical achievements were instrumental in the development of the mathematics related to electromagnetic field equations by Gauss, Maxwell, and others.
- June 19, 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and son of famed Niels Bohr, is born. Aage Bohr went on to follow in his father's footsteps by receiving the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, for work on the mechanical description of nucleons.
- June 21, 1957 - German physicist Johannes Stark dies. 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.
- June 18, 1983 - American astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first woman to travel into space, on the space shuttle Challenger.
- June 22, 1990 - Russian physicist Ilya Mikhailovich Frank dies. Frank received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in explaining Cherenkov radiation. (Pavel Cherenkov was, of course, another recipient that year.)
- June 21, 2004 - The first privately funded spaceplane, SpaceShipOne, achieves spaceflight.
- June 21, 2006 - Two newly discovered moons of Pluto (at this point still considered a planet) are officially named Nix & Hydra.
Comments
Dear Sir,
I would just like to correct your terminology.
The effect which converts photons of light into electricity is known as the PHOTOVOLTAIC effect.
Solarvoltaic is a Brand name and registered trade mark of the company Solar Voltaic. This is a 15 year old company. http://www.solarvoltaic.com
I appreciate you advertising our name but you really should correct the terminology and use Photovoltaic instead of Solar Voltaic.
Paul Millott
Solar Voltaic.
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