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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Nagasaki – nuclear bomb 1945
Naperian
logarithms 1614
Napier's bones 1617
National debt founded 1693
Nature of
Saturn's rings - James Clerk Maxwell 1857
Nautical almanac 1767
Nautilus (nuclear
submarine) launched 1954
Neptune discovered Adams and Leverrier, Johanne Galle
1846
Neptunium discovered 1940
Neutrino - Pauli 1931
Neutrino (
nm) discovered 1961
Neutrino theory of beta decay
1934
Neutrino detected – Reines and Cowan 1953
Neutron – Chadwick
1932
Neutron diffraction 1936
Neutron diffraction – Zinn 1947
Newcomen 1663-1729Newton 1642-
1727Newtonian bending of light by the Sun predicted – Johann von Soldner
1801
Newtonian reflector 1671
Newton's law of cooling 1701
Newton's rings
1665 (?1704)
Nicol prism 1829
Nipkow disc 1884
Nobel died 1896
Nobel
prizes instituted 1901
Non conservation of parity – Lee and Yang 1956
Non-isotropic
cosmic background radiation detected 1981
Nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in
service 1961
Nuclear atom theory – Rutherford 1911
Nuclear batteries
1956
Nuclear breeder reactor 1952
Nuclear explosion – first nuclear explosion –
Alamogordo desert in the USA 1945
Nuclear force theory – Yukawa 1935
Nuclear
power station - Calder Hall began operation 1956
Nuclear power station – Calder Hall
officially opened by the Queen 1961
Nuclear power stations – Bradwell and Berkeley
built 1962
Nuclear power stations – Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A, Trawsfyndd
1965
Nuclear power station - Oldbury 1966
Nuclear power station - Sizewell
1966
Nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Savannah 1959
Nuclear reactor – fast
reactor - Dounreay at 60 MW 1966
Nuclear test ban treaty signed 1963
