Nobel Prizes in Physics
Have you been empowered?1
The course in Classical Physics, in priniciple, should have taught you enough to understand work that has lead to several Nobel Prizes in Physics. I am listing a few of them — the Nobel Prize site offers a wealth of details (see the press release as well as advanced information) on the prizes.
- Max Planck (1918)
- Pauli Exclusion Principle (1945)
- Superfluidity in Liquid Helium (1962)
- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (1978)
- Laser Cooling (1997) Temperatures of the order of 100 $\mu$K are obtained through this method.
- Bose-Einstein Condensation (2001) Temperatures of the order of 10 nK are required and were attained in order to observe BEC.
- Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (2006) Nice writeup on CMB anisotropy
