20th century theoretical physics discovery timeline

  • 1900: Black-body radiation law (Planck).
  • 1905: Special relativity, photo-electric effect and brownian motion (Einstein)
  • 1907: Minkowski spacetime
  • 1911: Equivalence principle (Einstein)
  • 1913: Bohr Model of the atom (Bohr)
  • 1915: Swarzschild equation of Blackhole (Swarzschild)
  • 1916: General relativity (Einstein)
  • 1923: Matter-waves (de Broglie)
  • 1925: Bose-Einstein condensate
  • 1925: Pauli exclusion principle (Pauli)
  • 1926: Schrödinger Equation (Schrödinger). Born rule (Born)
  • 1927: Big Bang/Primordial atom (Lemaitre)
  • 1927: Uncertainty principle (Heisenberg)
  • 1928: Prediction of antimatter (Dirac)
  • 1935: EPR paradox
  • 1935: Yukawa theory of strong interaction (Yukawa)
  • 1938: Nuclear fusion in the sun (Bethe)
  • 1948: Big bang nucleogenesis (Alpher-Bethe Gamowpaper)
  • 1956: Yang Lee parity violation theory
  • 1957: Superconductivity explained (Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer)
  • 1964: Bells theorem
  • 1975: Hawking radiation
  • 1980: Cosmic inflation theory

.. to be continued

 

Experimental physics disoveries

1932 Neutron discovery (Chadwick)

1946 Nuclear magnetic resonance ( in 1980 first MRI scanner)

1964 Cosmic Background radiation

1995 top quark discovered

 

De units of Hbar

So apparantly the units of Planck’s constant is the same as the units of Angular momentum. I don’t really get this why would this be. Kg m^2/t

If we look at E=hv … why is the frequency times a constant related to the angular momentum the same as the energy of the photon. Is this an interesting connection? I don’t know.

 

What is the angular momentum of a wave … its polarization?

 

Or does it have to do with angular frequency?