This sandbox also has an archive with my older work; a „back burner” of a sort.
Timeline of physiscs awards
editThis list includes awards in Physics, but not purely astronomical awards; see a separate list.
Before 20th century
edit- 1731: Copley Medal.
- 1800: Rumford Medal.
- 1826: Royal Medal.
20th century
edit- 1901: The first Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen.
- 1902: Hughes Medal.
- 1925: Lorentz Medal.
- 1929: Max Planck Medal.
- 1951: Albert Einstein Award (IAS).
- 1953: Eddington Medal.
- 1962: Maxwell Prize
- 1978: Wolf Prize in Physics.
- 1978: Wigner Medal.
- 1984: Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
- 1985: Dirac Medal (ICTP).
- 1985: Sakurai Prize.
- 1987: Dirac Medal (IOP).
- 1988: Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture.
21st century
edit- 2001: Enrico Fermi Prize.
- 2003: Einstein Prize (APS).
- 2008: Isaac Newton Medal is established by IOP.
- 2012: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Timeline of astronomy awards
editTimeline of special relativity’s notation and terminology
edit- 1894 – Paul Drude introduces the symbol c for speed of light in vacuum.
- 1905 – Henri Poincaré introduces the name Lorentz transformations.
- 1906 – Alfred Bucherer introduces the name theory of relativity, based on Max Planck’s term relative theory.
- 1909 – Gilbert N. Lewis and Richard Tolman coin the disputed term relativistic mass.
- 1911 – Alfred Robb coins the term rapidity.
- 1967 – Gerald Feinberg introduces the term tachyon for hypothetical particles with speeds higher than that of light in vacuum (c).
Tasks
edit- Biographies to write:
- Paul Halcke (1662–1731), de:Paul Halcke (2016);
- Anton Lampa (1868–1938), de:Anton Lampa (2006);
- Karl Erich Hupka (1884–1919), de:Karl Erich Hupka (2015);
- Jean-Paul Auffray (1926–), fr:Jean-Paul Auffray (2017);
- István Ozsváth (1928–2013), eo:István Ozsváth (2016);
- Bogdan Mielnik (1936–2019) es:Bogdan Mielnik (2021);
- Henry R. Noble,
- Günther Neumann,
- Charles Lavanchy,
- David B. Hall,
- Hermann Starke,
- Kurt Wolz,
- Klaus Scharnhorst.