Famous People
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
By observing that a small fraction of alpha particles were deflected at large angles when striking metalic foil, this experiment overturned the plum pudding model and led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
What is the Rutherford Gold Foil experiment?
What is the Photoelectric effect?
Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this facility produces neutrons by bombarding a mercury target with high-energy protons to probe materials at the atomic scale.
What is SNS?
Colloquially known as the "GOAT" of undergraduate physics.
This international experiment, based in the U.S. and led by Fermilab, aims to study neutrino oscillations by sending a beam from Illinois to detectors deep underground in South Dakota.
What is DUNE?
The 1935 nobel prize in physics was given to James Chadwick for this.
What is the discovery of the Neutron?
Along with ATLAS, this other detector at the Large Hadron Collider helped discover the Higgs boson in 2012. Despite being half the size, it is double the weight of Atlas.
What is the CMS Detector?
This German theoretical physicist was one of the founders of modern physics. His groundbreaking work on black-body radiation and the discovery that energy is emitted in discrete packets, or "quanta," established quantum theory.
Who is Max Planck?
In 1922, this experiment sent silver atoms through a magnetic field and found that atoms split into two subsequent beams, revealing the quantization of angular momentum.
What is the Stern-Gerlach experiment?
After a premature obituary called him “the merchant of death,” this inventor decided to change his legacy by funding annual prizes for peace, literature, and science.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
Before bubble chambers, this device allowed scientists like C.T.R. Wilson to visualize particle tracks as condensation trails in supersaturated vapor.
This American theorist created a particle classification scheme called the "Eightfold Way".. He brought order to the chaotic "particle zoo" of the 1950s and 1960s by co-developing the theory of quarks.
Who is Murray Gell-Mann?
Conducted in 1887, this experiment used an interferometer to detect Earth’s motion through the “aether,” but found no difference in the speed of light — paving the way for Einstein’s theory of relativity.
What is the Michelson–Morley Experiment?
Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga were awarded the 1965 nobel prize for their work in this theory. It explains how charged particles interact by exchanging photons.
What is QED?
Located deep beneath Mount Ikeno, this 50,000-ton Cherenkov detector experienced a catastrophic cascade failure of photomultiplier tubes on November 12, 2001.
What is Super-Kamiokande?
This Russian physicist wrote a series of textbooks on theoretical phyiscs with Lifshitz. He famously had an insanely difficult series of exams called "The Theoretical Minimum" that you had to pass to join his inner circle. Only 43 people in 18 years passed.
Who is Lev Landau?
This experiment first began at Brookhaven National lab, then was transported to FermiLab. It measures the title particle's anomolous magnetic moment and its "g-factor's" deviation from 2.
What is muon g-2?
This 2017 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their work in this collaboration. This collaboration has locations in Hanford, Washington, Livingston, Louisiana and Hannover, Germany. They mainly use laser interferometers and are part of NASA.
What is the LIGO collaboration?
This collider mainly studies quark gluon plasma with its two main detectors, sPHENIX and STAR. It is located on Long Island at Brookhaven National Lab.
What is RHIC?