JF Ptak Science Books Post 1838
The data and research and linkage below are taken entirely from the Chronology of Milestone Events of Particle Physics, streamlined and adapted and made a little more accessible (for me) for a fast browse--I've had no hand in assembling this data, just re-arranging it.
The links are quite valuable--the scientist's biography is clickable on the name, and the article is reproduced from the original in the pdf.
BECQUEREL 1896B
Evidence for spontaneous radioactivity effect. PDF
BECQUEREL 1896C
Confirmation of the effect of spontaneous radioactivity. PDF
BECQUEREL 1896F
Uranium radioactivity established. PDF
THOMSON 1897
Discovery of the electron, the first elementary particle. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1899
Evidence for the a and b components of uranium radiation. PDF
BECQUEREL 1900
Confirmation of the g radioactivity.
PLANCK 1900
Discovery of a new formula for the energy spectrum of the black body radiation, Planck's radiation law. PDF
PLANCK 1900B
Quantum hypothesis and explanation of the black body radiation spectrum. Beginnings of the quantum era in physics. PDF
PLANCK 1901
Quantum hypothesis and final version of Planck's formula for the black body radiation spectrum. PDF
LEBEDEV 1901
First experimental evidence for pressure of the light on the solid bodies. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1903
Observation that a rays are the flow of doubly positive charged particles PDF
EINSTEIN 1905
Explanation of the photoelectric effect with use of the quantum hypothesis of Planck. Light is a flow of corpuscular objects with definite energies - Planck's quanta of energy. PDF
EINSTEIN 1905B
Invention of the theory of special relativity. PDF
EINSTEIN 1905C
Invention of the theory of special relativity, E = mc2. PDF
STARK 1909
First explicit identification of the photon as a genuine elementary particle possessing both energy and momentum. PDF
MILLIKAN 1911
First conclusive measurement of the charge of the electron. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1911
Evidence for the atomic nucleus.
HESS 1912
Conclusive evidence for the cosmic rays.
WILSON 1912
Invention of the cloud chamber to visualize tracks of ionizing particles. PDF
BOHR 1913
Invention of the quantum theory of atomic spectra based on the Rutherford model of atomic structure - Bohr's atom. PDF
BOHR 1913B
Bohr's quantum theory of atomic spectra. Evidence that radioactivity is a nuclear property. PD
RUTHERFORD 1913
Confirmation of the existence of atomic nuclei. First indication of the existence of the proton. PDF
MILLIKAN 1916
First conclusive measurement of energy quantization in the photoelectric effect. PDF
BOHR 1918
Bohr's invention of correspondence principle. PDF
Rutherford
Discovery of the proton. Evidence for the proton as a constituent of the nucleus. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1920
Rutherford neutron hypothesis. PDF
CHADWICK 1921
Evidence for the strong interactions. PDF format
COMPTON 1923
Direct experimental confirmation that the photon is an elementary particle, the Compton effect. PDF
WILSON 1923
Experimental confirmation of the ionization process predicted by Compton for a corpuscular photon. PDF
BOSE 1924
Discovery of new statistical counting rules for light quanta and a new derivation of Planck's radiation law. Known as Bose-Einstein quantum statistics for particles with integer spins. PDF
BORN 1925
Invention of matrix formalism for the Heisenberg quantum mechanics. Systems with one degree of freedom. PDF
BORN 1926
Development of matrix formalism for the Heisenberg quantum mechanics. Systems with arbitrary many degrees of freedom. PDF
FERMI 1926B
Invention of statistics for ensembles of particles obeying Pauli principle - Fermi-Dirac quantum statistics. PDF
DIRAC 1927
First steps in quantum field theory. Invention of the second quantization method.
GAMOW 1928
Explanation of a decay as a consequence of quantum-mechanical tunneling through a potential barrier. PDF
OPPENHEIMER 1930
First evidence of ultraviolet divergences occurring in the theory of quantum electrodynamics - the self-energy of the electron. PDF
DIRAC 1931
Prediction of the anti-electron (e+), anti-proton ( anti-p), and an indication of the possible existence of magnetic monopoles. PDF
LAWRENCE 1931B
Tests of the first cyclotron. PDF
VAN DE GRAAFF 1931
Invention of the Van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator. PDF
CHADWICK 1932
First evidence for the neutron. PDF
UREY 1932
Evidence for the deuteron. PDF
UREY 1932B
Discovery of the deuteron. PDF format
VAN DE GRAAFF 1933
Invention of electrostatic accelerators. in PDF format
ANDERSON 1933
Discovery of the positron, the first antiparticle, predicted by Dirac. PDF
YUKAWA 1935
Yukawa field theory of nuclear forces. Prediction of heavy quanta, the pion particles, as mediators of strong interactions. PDF
BREIT 1936
Breit-Wigner form of the amplitude for resonance reactions. PDF
GAMOW 1936
Extension of Fermi interaction and Gamow-Teller selection rules. PDF
BREIT 1936B
Hypothesis of charge independence of nuclear forces. PDF
CASSEN 1936
Proposal of the isotopic spin (for the nucleon). PDF
WIGNER 1937
Discovery of supermultiplet structure in nuclear spectroscopy
NEDDERMEYER 1937
First evidence for the muon. PDF
CERENKOV 1937
Confirmation of the Frank-Tamm theory of the Vavilov- Cerenkov effect PDF
STREET 1937B
Muon existence confirmation. PDF
NISHINA 1937
Confirmation of the existence of the muon. PDF format
SCHWINGER 1937
Establishment of the neutron spin 1/2. PDF
ALVAREZ 1938
First evidence for the capture of atomic electrons by the weak interaction; K-capture.PDF
LAWRENCE 1939
First cyclotron for medical applications. PDF
KELLOGG 1939
High-precision measurements of proton and deuteron magnetic moments. PDF
ROSSI 1939
First evidence of muon decay and first estimation of its lifetime. PDF
ALVAREZ 1940
First direct measurement of the neutron magnetic moment. PDF
PAULI 1940B
Theorem on the connection between spin and statistics.
KERST 1940
Kerst proposal for betatron accelerator. PDF
RASETTI 1941
First measurement of the muon lifetime, preliminary result. PDF
KERST 1941
First betatron. in PDF
RASETTI 1941B
First measurement of the muon lifetime. PDF
NERESON 1942
Confirmation of the muon exponential decay rate. PDF
FERMI 1943
First Fermi nuclear reactor. Beginning of atomic energy era. PDF
SCHWINGER 1948B
First theoretical calculation of g-2 for the electron. PDF
FEYNMAN 1948C
Invention of the path integral formalism for quantum mechanics. PDF
Covariant quantum electrodynamics: Equivalence between the Tomonaga-Schwinger method and the Feynman method and generalization PDF
Covariant quantum electrodynamics: Equivalence between the Tomonaga-Schwinger method and the Feynman method and generalization. PDF
Development of the covariant quantum electrodynamic theory. Feynman method. PDF
HEISENBERG 1952
Prediction of rising total hadronic cross sections. Full text in PDF
GERSHTEIN 1955
Evidence that strong interactions do not modify the vector coupling constant of beta decay. Analogy between electromagnetic and weak interactions. PDF
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