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- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- See also
- References
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}}The Timeline of theoretical physics lists key events by century. 17th century- 1687 - Newton: Laws of Motion and Law of Gravity[1]
18th century- 1782 - Lavoisier: Conservation of matter
- 1785 - Coulomb: Inverse-square law for electric charges confirmed[2]
19th century- 1801 - Young: Wave theory of light
- 1803 - Dalton: Atomic theory of matter
- 1806 - Young: Kinetic energy
- 1814 - Fresnel: Wave theory of light, interference
- 1820 - Ampère, Biot, & Savart: Evidence for electromagnetic interactions
- 1824 - Sadi Carnot: Ideal gas cycle analysis, internal combustion engine
- 1827 - Ohm: Electrical resistance, etc.
- 1838 - Michael Faraday: Lines of force, Fields
- 1838 - Weber: Earth's magnetic field
- 1842-43 - Kelvin & Mayer: Conservation of energy
- 1842 - Kelvin: Doppler effect
- 1845 - Faraday: Faraday Rotation (light and electromagnetic)
- 1847 - Helmholtz & Joule: Conservation of Energy 2
- 1850-51 - Kelvin & Clausius: Second law of thermodynamics
- 1857-59 - Clausius & Maxwell: Kinetic theory
- 1861 - Kirchhoff: Black body
- 1863 - Clausius: Entropy
- 1864 - Maxwell: Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
- 1867 - Maxwell: Dynamic theory of gases
- 1871-89 - Boltzmann & Gibbs: Statistical mechanics
- 1884 - Boltzmann derives Stefan radiation law{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1887 - Hertz: Electromagnetic waves
- 1893 - Wien: Radiation law{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1895 - Röntgen: X-rays
- 1896 - Becquerel: Radioactivity
- 1897 - Thomson: Electron
20th century- 1900 - Planck: Formula for black-body radiation
- 1905 - Einstein: Special relativity, Photoelectric effect & Brownian motion
- 1911 - Rutherford: Discovery of the atomic nucleus, Kamerlingh Onnes: Superconductivity & equivalence principle
- 1913 - Bohr: Bohr model of the atom
- 1916 - Einstein: General relativity
- 1919 - Light Bending confirmed
- 1922 - Friedmann proposes expanding universe
- 1923 - Stern–Gerlach experiment, Matter waves, galaxies & particle nature of photons confirmed
- 1925-27 - Quantum mechanics
- 1925 - Stellar structure understood
- 1927 - Lemaître: Big Bang
- 1928 - Dirac: Antimatter predicted
- 1929 - Hubble: Expansion of universe confirmed
- 1932 - Anderson: Antimatter discovered & Chadwick: Neutron discovered
- 1933 - Invention of the electron microscope by Ernst Ruska
- 1937 - Muon discovered by Anderson & Neddermeyer
- 1938 - Superfluidity discovered & Energy production in stars understood
- 1939 - Uranium fission discoveredo
- 1944 - Theory of magnetism in 2D: Ising model
- 1947 - Pion discovered
- 1948 - Quantum electrodynamics
- 1948 - Invention of the maser and laser by Charles Townes
- 1956 - Electron neutrino discovered
- 1956-57 - Parity found violated{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1957 - Superconductivity explained{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1959-60 - Role of topology in quantum physics predicted and Confirmed{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1962 - SU(3) theory of strong interactions & muon neutrino found
- 1963 - Murray Gell-Mann & George Zweig: Quarks predicted
- 1967 - Unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, Solar neutrino Problem found & Pulsars (neutron stars) discovered{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1968 - Experimental evidence for quarks found
- 1968 - Vera Rubin: Dark matter theories
- 1970-73 - Standard Model of elementary particles invented
- 1971 - Helium 3 Superfluidity
- 1974 - Black hole radiation predicted, renormalization group & charmed quark found
- 1975 - Tau lepton found
- 1977 - Bottom quark found
- 1980 - Quantum Hall effect
- 1981 - Theory of Cosmic Inflation proposed{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1982 - Fractional quantum Hall effect
- 1995 - Wolfgang Ketterle: Bose–Einstein condensate found
- 1995 - Top quark found
- 1998 - Accelerating expansion of Universe found{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
- 1999 - Lene Vestergaard Hau: Slow light experimentally demonstrated
21st century- 2000 - Tau neutrino found
- 2003 - WMAP Observations of cosmic microwave background
- 2012 - Higgs boson found
- 2014 - Gravitational waves detected from Cosmic microwave background
See also- Physics
- Timeline of developments in theoretical physics
References1. ^{{cite book|author=American Heritage Dictionary|title=The American Heritage Science Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKUagx8PB_EC&pg=PA428|date=January 2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-618-45504-1|page=428}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=John L. Heilbron|title=The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abqjP-_KfzkC&pg=PA235|date=14 February 2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-974376-6|page=235}}
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