JF Ptak Science Books Reference Post
I never did collect any of these useful sites of timeslines/chronologies in the history of physics--here's a first installment of them:
- Particle Physics Timeline (ParticleAdventure.org)
- Timeline of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SuperstringTheory.com)
- 20th Century Physics told through Nobel Prizes
- Timeline of Nobel Prize Winners
- Physics TImeline (Weburbia)
- Beginning of the Quantum Age
- Timeline of Fundamental Physics Discoveries
- Particle Physics Timeline (from FermiLab)
- Contributions of Women to 20th-century physics
- Quantum Theory Timeline
- Origins of Quantum Theory by C. Carson (14-page PDF)
- The Development of Particle Physics by V. Kudryavtsev (PowerPoint presentations)
- A Fundamental Particle Timeline and a Brief History of String Theory
- A History of the Detection of the Neutrino, History of Neutrinos and A Neutrino Timeline
- History of the Internet
- Timeline of Particle Physics
- Chronology of Particle Physics
- Physics and Health Physics Timeline
All of the following images from the Wiki site on the history of physics:
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Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BCE)
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
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Johannes Kepler (1571—1630)
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Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727):
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Henry Cavendish (1731–1810)
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806)
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Alessandro Volta (1745–1827)
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Thomas Young (1773–1829)
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Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851)
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André-Marie Ampère (1777–1836)
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Joseph von Fraunhofer, (1787–1826)
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Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
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Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
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Christian Doppler (1803–1853)
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James Prescott Joule (1818–1889)
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907)
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
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Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
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Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)
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Henri Becquerel (1852 – 1908)
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Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)
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J. J. Thomson (1856–1940)
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Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
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Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)
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Max Planck (1858–1947)
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Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)
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Marie Curie (1867–1934)
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Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
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Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
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Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
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Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
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Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
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James Chadwick (1891–1974)
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Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
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Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)
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Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
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Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
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Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
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Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
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John Bardeen (1908–1991)
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John Wheeler (1911–2008)
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
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Gerardus 't Hooft (1946–present)
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Peter Higgs (1929–present)
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Stephen Hawking (1942–present)
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