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List of experiments in physics
This is a list of notable experiments in physics. The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles. For hypothetical experiments, see thought experiment.
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This article contains dynamic lists that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources This is a list of notable experiments in physics The list includes only experiments with Wikipedia articles For hypothetical experiments see thought experiment Contents 1 Historical experiments 2 Articles on several experiments 3 On going experiments 4 See alsoHistorical experiments editDate of start Experiment Attribution Type About1586 Delft tower experiment Simon Stevin and Jan Cornets de Groot Demonstration Same mass objects fall at the same speed on Earth1643 Torricelli s experiment Evangelista Torricelli Demonstration Vacuum relation to atmospheric pressure1654 Magdeburg hemispheres Otto von Guericke Demonstration Atmospheric pressure1675 Romer s determination of the speed of light Ole Romer Measurement Speed of light1752 Kite experiment Thomas Francois Dalibard Benjamin Franklin Investigation Lightning1797 Cavendish experiment Henry Cavendish Measurement Gravitational constant1799 Voltaic pile Alessandro Volta Demonstration First electric battery1803 Young s interference experiment Thomas Young Confirmation Wave theory of light1819 Arago spot experiment Francois Arago Confirmation Fresnel diffraction due to circular object1838 Bedford Level experiment Samuel Rowbotham Measurement Curvature of the Earth1843 Faraday s ice pail experiment Michael Faraday Demonstration Electromagnetic induction1850 Foucault s measurements of the speed of light Leon Foucault Measurement Speed of light1851 Fizeau experiment Hippolyte Fizeau Measurement Speed of light1851 Foucault pendulum Leon Foucault Demonstration Earth s rotation1852 Foucault s gyroscope Leon Foucault Demonstration Earth s rotation1867 Kelvin water dropper Lord Kelvin William Thomson Demonstration Electrostatic generator1867 Tyndall s bar breaker John Tyndall Demonstration Thermal expansion forces1885 Eotvos experiment Lorand Eotvos Measurement Ratio between inertial and gravitational mass1887 Michelson Morley experiment Albert A Michelson and Edward W Morley Negative result Luminiferous aether1897 Thomson experiment J J Thomson Discovery Electron1901 Trouton Noble experiment Frederick Thomas Trouton and H R Noble Negative result Luminiferous aether1905 Rubens tube Heinrich Rubens Demonstration Standing wave1908 Geiger Marsden experiments Hans Geiger Ernest Marsden Ernest Rutherford Discovery Atomic nucleus1909 Oil drop experiment Robert A Millikan and Harvey Fletcher Measurement Elementary charge of the electron1913 Compton generator Arthur Compton Demonstration Earth s rotation1914 Franck Hertz experiment James Franck and Gustav Hertz Confirmation Bohr model1914 Blondel s experiments Andre Blondel Investigation Electromagnetic induction1919 Eddington experiment Arthur Eddington Confirmation General relativity1922 Stern Gerlach experiment Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach Confirmationn Angular momentum quantization1923 Davisson Germer experiment Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer Confirmation De Broglie hypothesis1925 Michelson Gale Pearson experiment Albert A Michelson and Henry G Gale Measurement Earth s rotation1929 Ruchardt experiment Eduard Ruchardt Measurement Heat capacity ratio1932 Kennedy Thorndike experiment Roy J Kennedy and Edward M Thorndike Confirmation Inertial frame invariance of speed of light1938 Ives Stilwell experiment Herbert E Ives and G R Stilwell Confirmation Relativistic Doppler shift1942 Chicago Pile 1 Enrico Fermi Demonstration First self sustaining nuclear chain reaction1945 Trinity Manhattan Project Demonstration First nuclear weapon detonation1947 Lamb Retherford experiment Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford Discovery Lamb shift Vacuum energy1956 Wu experiment Chien Shiung Wu Confirmation Parity violation1956 Cowan Reines neutrino experiment Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines Confirmation Existence of neutrino1958 Hughes Drever experiment Giuseppe Cocconi and Edwin Ernest Salpeter Confirmation Lorentz covariance1959 Pound Rebka experiment Robert Pound and Glen A Rebka Jr Confirmation Gravitational redshift1964 Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson Discovery Cosmic microwave background1965 Homestake experiment Raymond Davis Jr and John N Bahcall Measurement Count solar neutrinos solar neutrino problem1970 Gargamelle CERN Discovery Neutral currents1976 Gravity Probe A NASA Measurement Gravitational time dilation1977 De Sitter double star experiment Kenneth Brecher Negative result de Sitter effect1980 Aspect s experiment Alain Aspect Confirmation Violation of Bell s inequalities1981 UA1 and UA2 experiments CERN Discovery W and Z bosons1992 DO experiment CERN Multiple Top quark1998 Delayed choice quantum eraser Marlan Scully Demonstration Delayed choice quantum mechanics 2004 Gravity Probe B NASA Stanford University Confirmation Frame dragging2012 Search for the Higgs boson CERN Confirmation Higgs boson2015 First observation of gravitational waves LIGO Confirmation Gravitational wavesArticles on several experiments editBell tests BICEP and Keck Array Discovery of the neutron Large Hadron Collider experiments List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments Tests of special relativity Tests of relativistic energy and momentum Modern searches for Lorentz violation Measurements of neutrino speed Tests of general relativity Experimental testing of time dilationOn going experiments editCollider Detector at Fermilab China Dark Matter Experiment Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass Experiment General antiparticle spectrometer GlueX The E and B Experiment VIP2 experiment VITO experimentSee also editList of accelerators in particle physics Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of experiments in physics amp oldid 1189944796, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,