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.
W
War - Boer 1899-1902
War - First World War
1914-1918
War Second World War 1939-1945
War Seven years war began
1756
Water clocks in Mesopotamia 2000 BC
Water thermometer John Ray
1632
Watt 1736-1819Watt patents the steam
engine 1769
Wave equation for a particle (
l=h/p) - De Broglie
1924
Wave mechanical alpha emission Gamov 1928
Wave mechanical barrier
penetration 1928
Wave mechanics particle-wave equation - Schr๖dinger
1926
Weber introduced as a unit of magnetic flux 1935
Wheatstone 1802-1875Wheatstone Bridge Christie
1833
White dwarf first one discovered 1915
Wien 1864-
1928Wigner, Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen Nobel prize for Physics
1963
Wilson and Compton Nobel prize for Physics 1927
Wimshurst machine
1878
Windscale disaster (renamed Sellafield)1957
Wireless message first paid one
1898
Wireless pulses depth finding 1904
Wireless waves detected - Hertz
1887
Wolf 1863-1932
