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2012 Event - Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics

2011 Event - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess, for their work on the accelerating expansion of the universe

1993 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor

1988 Event - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel

1981 Event - Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)

1968 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)

1968 Death - Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89

1967 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe

1958 Death - Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57

1956 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen

1955 Death - Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany

1954 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe

1953 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke

1951 Event - E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab

1945 Event - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

1940 Death - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78

1939 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron

1937 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson

1913 Event - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

1910 Event - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

1905 Birthday - Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics

1905 Birthday - Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki

1903 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1901 Birthday - Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

1893 Birthday - Earnest Julius pik, Estonian astronomer, Physics of meteor flight

1885 Birthday - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922

1882 Birthday - Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics

1879 Birthday - Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect

1862 Birthday - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics, Emden-polytroop













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