Experimental physics
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Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena in order to gather data about the universe. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and observations, such as the Cavendish experiment, to more complicated ones, such as the Large Hadron Collider.
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Famous experiments
Famous experiments include:
- 2-degree-Field Galaxy Redshift Survey
- 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS)
- Bell test experiments
- BOOMERanG experiment
- Camera obscura experiments
- Cavendish experiment
- Cosmic Background Explorer
- Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment
- Davisson–Germer experiment
- Double-slit experiment
- Foucault pendulum
- Franck–Hertz experiment
- Geiger–Marsden experiment
- Gravity Probe A
- Gravity Probe B
- Hafele–Keating experiment
- Homestake experiment
- Oil drop experiment
- Michelson–Morley experiment
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Stern–Gerlach experiment
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
- Wu experiment
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Experimental techniques
Some well-known experimental techniques include:
- Crystallography
- Ellipsometry
- Faraday cage
- Interferometry
- NMR
- Laser cooling
- Laser spectroscopy
- Raman spectroscopy
- Signal processing
- Spectroscopy
- STM
- Vacuum technique
- X-ray spectroscopy
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Prominent experimental physicists
Famous experimental physicists include:
- Alhazen (965–1039)
- Al-Biruni (973–1043)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115–1130)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Laura Bassi (1711–1778)
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- John William Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh) (1842–1919)
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)
- Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
- Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926)
- J. J. Thomson (1856–1940)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
- William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
- Marie Curie (1867–1934)
- Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
- Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
- Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
- Max von Laue (1879–1960)
- Clinton Davisson (1881–1958)
- C. V. Raman (1888–1970)
- William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)
- James Chadwick (1891–1974)
- Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984)
- Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980)
- John Cockcroft (1897–1967)
- Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974)
- Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962)
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
- Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958)
- Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987)
- Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990)
- Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)
- Ernst Ruska (1906–1988)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991)
- William Shockley (1910–1989)
- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997)
- Charles Hard Townes (1915–)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–)
- Vera Rubin (1928–)
- Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–)
- Gerd Binnig (1947–)
- Steven Chu (1948–)
- Wolfgang Ketterle (1957–)
- Andre Geim (1958–)
- Lene Hau (1959–)
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Timelines
See the timelines below for listings of physics experiments.
- Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics
- Timeline of classical mechanics
- Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
- Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity
- Timeline of nuclear fusion
- Timeline of particle discoveries
- Timeline of particle physics technology
- Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
- Timeline of thermodynamics
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