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< Portal talk:Physics

Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:
  • February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
  • February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
  • February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
  • March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
  • March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
  • March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
  • April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
  • April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
  • April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
  • April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
  • April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
  • May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
  • July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
  • July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
  • July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
  • November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
  • November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
  • November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
  • December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
  • December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
  • December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched
  • The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:
    Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. — Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal_talk:Physics/Anniversaries&oldid=243497860"





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