Categories: Science timelines | Particle physics 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Properties The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle which carries a negative electric charge. ... ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... An alpha particle is deflected by a magnetic field Alpha particles or alpha rays (named after the first letter in the greek alphabet) are a form of particle radiation which are highly ionizing and have low penetration. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), called father of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block ?, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic Atomic mass 238. ... Radiation has a variety of different meanings. ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... This article is about electromagnetic radiation. ... In physics, the photon (from Greek φοτος, meaning light) is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, for instance light. ... Paul Ulrich Villard (1860 - 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist, born near Lyon, France. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... A stylized representation of a lithium atom. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), called father of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. ... In particle physics, scattering is a class of phenomena by which particles are deflected by collisions with other particles. ... Johannes ( Hans ) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... Sir Ernest Marsden (1888 - 1970), was a British-New Zealand physicist. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Properties In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), called father of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Properties In physics, the neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass of 939. ... Sir James Chadwick (October 20, 1897 – July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... The first detection of the positron in 1932 by Carl D. Anderson The positron is the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron. ... Carl David Anderson (3 September 1905 – 11 January 1991) was a U.S. experimental physicist. ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The moons shadow, as seen in muons 700m below ground at the Soudan 2 detector. ... Seth Neddermeyer was a physicist who worked in the Manhattan project. ... The cloud chamber, also known as the Wilson chamber, is used for detecting particles of ionizing radiation. ... Cosmic rays can loosely be defined as energetic particles originating outside of the Earth. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In particle physics, pion (short for the Greek pi meson = P middle) is the collective name for three subatomic particles discovered in 1947: Ï€0, Ï€+ and π−. Pions are the lightest mesons. ... Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 _ August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. ... Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese person to win the Nobel prize. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In particle physics, Kaons (also called K-mesons and denoted K) are a group of four mesons distinguished by the fact that they carry a quantum number called strangeness. ... In particle physics, a strange particle is any particle with non-zero strangeness. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The antiproton(aka pbar) is the antiparticle of the proton. ... Owen Chamberlain (b. ... Emilio Gino Segr (February 1, 1905 - April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Clyde Wiegand (May 23, 1915 – July 5, 1996) was an American physicist. ... Thomas (Tom) John Ypsilantis (June 24, 1928 – August 16, 2000) was a Greek-American physicist. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The neutrino is an elementary particle. ... Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ... Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (1919–1974) was a captain in the United States Army Air Force. ... Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Natural gas stoves are more energy-efficient than electric models. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... The Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. ... The Higgs mechanism, originally discovered by the British physicist Peter Higgs (building on a previous suggestion by Philip Anderson in condensed matter physics), is the mechanism that gives masses to all elementary particles in particle physics. ... Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is now an emeritus professor. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CMS detector for LHC at CERN The Large Hadron Collider (short LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN. It is currently under construction and scheduled to start operation in 2007. ... CERN logo CERN is the European Council for Nuclear Research (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... 2010 in Topic // The Decade as a Whole This decade is expected to be called the tens or the twenty-tens, possibly the twenty-teens. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... In particle physics, the parton was a hypothetical fundamental particle considered, in the parton model of strong interactions, to be a constituent of the hadron. ... In particle physics, a hadron is a subatomic particle which experiences the strong nuclear force. ... Deep Inelastic Scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons. ... Properties In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... Properties The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle which carries a negative electric charge. ... The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a U.S. national laboratory operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy. ... The quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks, ie, the quarks (and antiquarks) which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. ... Murray Gell-Mann at Harvard University Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ... George Zweig is a US particle physicist and neurobiologist. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation) 1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon, now identified as the Σc++ In particle physics, the quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. ... For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation) 1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon, now identified as the Σc++ In particle physics, the quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. ... For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation) 1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon, now identified as the Σc++ In particle physics, the quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ... Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ... For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation) 1974 discovery photograph of a possible charmed baryon In particle physics, the quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. ... Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... The tauon (or tau lepton) is a negatively charged elementary particle with a lifetime of 3x10-13 s and a high mass of 1777 MeV (compared to 939 MeV for protons and 0. ... Martin Lewis Perl (b. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The upsilon particle () is a flavorless meson formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. ... Fermilab Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ... The bottom quark is a third-generation quark with a charge of -(1/3)e. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Gluon is the basic unit of Elmers Glue. ... The term three jet event, or Mercedes event, refers to particularly distinctive three-jet events found in particle detectors that constitute the most direct evidence currently available for the existence of gluons. ... The DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, German Electron Synchrotron) is a German physics research institute. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In physics, the W and Z bosons are the elementary particles that mediate the weak nuclear force. ... Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ... Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ... Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Prof. ... Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The top quark is a third-generation quark with a charge of +(2/3)e. ... Fermilab Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Fermilab Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ...