History of Physics and Astronomy

This version sorts the important events by name. The lifetimes of people are highlighted in blue, important people are in bold blue.

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Dalton 1766-1844
Dalton's law of partial pressures 1804
Daniell – Daniell cell 1790-1845
Dark matter suggested – Rubin and Ford 1970
Darwin 1809- 1882
Davy 1778-1829
Davy lamp 1815
De Broglie 1892-1987
De Broglie – Nobel prize for Physics 1928
De Sitter 1872-1934
Decay of the neutron - Snell and Miller 1948
Decomposition of waves, harmonic analysis - Fourier 1812
Definition of metric system in France 1790
Deflection of light in a gravitational field – total solar eclipse 1919
Deflection of magnet by current - Oersted 1820
Democritus – idea of atoms 460-370 BC
Descartes 1596-1650
Detection of neutrinos from a supernova - Masatoshi Koshibas 1987
Deuterium – Urey and Washburn 1932
Dewar flask 1892
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del Mondi published - Galileo 1632
Diesel engine 1893
Diffraction – Grimaldi 1665
Diffraction – Fresnel theory of diffraction 1816
Diffraction grating – Rowland 1882
Diffraction of molecules – Stern 1931
Diffraction of X rays 1899
Diffusion pump - Gaede 1915
Dip circle 1600
Dirac – Nobel prize for Physics 1933
Domain theory of ferromagnetism - Weiss 1907
Doppler 1803-1853
Doppler effect 1842
Doppler effect in the spectra of stars – Huggins 1868
Double acting steam engine 1782
Double stars are bodies in mutual orbit - William Herschel 1802
Dounreay critical 1959
Du Long and Petit's Law 1819
Dubna research centre opened 1956
Dynamic method for saturated vapour pressure – Ramsay and Young 1886
Dynamite 1869
Dynamo – Faraday 1831