PBS - People & Discoveries

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What's the story behind electroshock therapy? Who's responsible for increasing the size of the Universe? What laboratory mishap led to the saving of countless lives? The answers to these questions, plus many more, await you in People and Discoveries, a databank consisting of 120 entries about 20th century scientists and their stories.

Physics and Astronomy: Rrelating to the atom, the astronomical, and the abstract.

People
Jocelyn Bell
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Jim Gates
Murray Gell-Mann
Werner Heisenberg
Edwin Hubble
Henrietta Leavitt
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Max Planck
Ernest Rutherford
Erwin Schrodinger
Steven Weinberg

 

Discoveries
1900   Planck discovers the quantum nature of energy
1905   Einstein publishes the special theory of relativity
1912   Leavitt discovers a correlation between Cepheids' period and luminosity
1913   Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure
1915   Einstein announces the general theory of relativity
1924   Hubble identifies a new galaxy
1927   Big bang theory is introduced
1927   Heisenberg the states uncertainty principle
1929   Hubble finds proof that the universe is expanding
1931   Lawrence invents the cyclotron
1932   Chadwick discovers the neutron
1942   Fermi creates controlled nuclear reaction
1945   The first atomic bomb is detonated
1965   Penzias and Wilson discover cosmic microwave radiation
1967   Bell and Hewish discover pulsars
1976   Cosmic string theory introduced

 

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