Notable Anniversaries In Physics

January

* 1 January 1876 - Harriet Brooks was born.
* 2 January 1822 - Rudolf Clausius was born.
* 04 January 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton was born.
* 15 January 1908 - Edward Teller was born.

February

* 15 February 1564 – Galileo Galilei's birthday
* 15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
* 18 February 1967 – Robert Oppenheimer died
* 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss died
* 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling's birthday

March

* 1 March 1966 – first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
* 14 March 1879 – Albert Einstein's birthday
* 24 March 1993 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered

April

* 1 April 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
* 12 April 1633 – Galileo Galilei's trial starts
* 15 April 1707 – Leonhard Euler's birthday
* 18 April 1955 – Albert Einstein died
* 22 April 1904 – Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
* 24 April 1990 – Hubble Space Telescope launched
* 30 April 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday

May

* 11 May 1918 – Richard Feynman's birthday

June

* 13 June 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell's birthday

July

* July 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
* 16 July 1945 – Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
* 23 July 1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp discovered

August

* 8 August 1902 - Paul Dirac's birthday

September

* 7 September 1783 - Leonhard Euler died
* 9 September 2003 - Edward Teller died

October

* 1 October 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA

November

* November 1915 – Albert Einstein formulates GR
* 9 November 1934 – Carl Sagan's birthday
* 9 November 1676 – using his first quantitative measurement of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io

December

* December 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus.
* December 1995 – Hubble Deep Field images taken.
* 22 December 1968 – Apollo 8 launched.