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Science History

By lagle

  • Maxwell's Equations

    first published in his book, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

  • Marie Curie becomes the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

    for her contributions to radiation science and discovery of new elements

  • Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  • Heisenberg uncertainty principle

    The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
    --Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927

  • James Chadwick discovered the nuetron