May 25 In Physics History
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birthdays & deaths
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May 25 In Physics History - Births – Physicists born on May 25
Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 - 9 Oct 1943)
He was a Dutch physicist who discovered the Zeeman Effect the “phenomena produced in spectroscopy by the splitting up of spectral lines in a magnetic field.” For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in 1902.
Carl Wagner (25 May 1901 - 10 Dec 1977)
He was a German physical chemist and metallurgist who was the first to make chemical metallurgy an exact science. He focused on the wide-ranging field, such as oxidation rate theory, catalysis, corrosion, batteries, fuel cells, and crystal defects. He wrote the paper with Walter Schottky that helped in bringing order to the field of defect structures in solid-state materials. Wagner was also known as “the father of Solid-state Chemistry” and also remembered as one of the greatest in physical chemistry.
Jack Steinberger (25 May 1921 - 12 December 2020)
He was a German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for his joint discoveries of the neutrino beam method with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz. He also demonstrated the double structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. After their discovery, the neutrino beams went on to become one of the standard tools of particle physics.
May 25 In Physics History - Deaths – Physicists died on May 25
Frank Dyson (8 Jan 1868 - 25 May 1939)
He was a British astronomer who spent his almost entire career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory as an Astronomer Royal from 1910-33. He initiated the radio broadcast of time and directed measurements of terrestrial magnetism, latitude, and time. He photographed the entire sky and examined the proper motions of northern stars. He directed the 1919 eclipse expedition which confirmed the bending of starlight by the gravitational field of the Sun.
May 25 In Physics History - Events – Physics Events of May 25
Announcement of First Moon Landing Goal
On this day, President John F. Kennedy made the formal announcement of an American lunar landing in 1961. After eight years and one month, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
