1974 ⟶ Discovery of Indirect Evidence for Gravitational Waves in a Binary Pulsar

Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover in...
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⚛️ Wu's Experiment Reveals Parity Violation in Weak Interactions

Chien Shiung Wu: demonstrated that parity, and thus charge conjugation and time-reversals, are violated for weak interactions⟶
Wu's Experiment Reveals Parity Violation in Weak Interactions (1957)
PhysicsParticle PhysicsExperimental PhysicsQuantum Mechanics20th Century Science
United StatesUnited States

🔭 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson Detect Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson: detection of CMBR providing experimental evidence for the Big Bang⟶
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson Detect Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (1964)
CosmologyRadio AstronomyAstrophysicsExperimental Physics
United StatesUnited States

🔭 Discovery of Indirect Evidence for Gravitational Waves in a Binary Pulsar

Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary⟶
Discovery of Indirect Evidence for Gravitational Waves in a Binary Pulsar (1974)
PhysicsAstrophysicsRelativityGravitational WavesRadio Astronomy20th Century Science
United StatesUnited States

🔭 Discovery of the First Millisecond Pulsar

Donald C. Backer et al. discover the first millisecond pulsar⟶
Discovery of the First Millisecond Pulsar (1982)
AstronomyAstrophysicsRadio AstronomySpace ExplorationCosmology
United StatesUnited States

📡 LIGO Confirms Detection of Gravitational Waves

February 11: Detection of gravitational waves by LIGO confirmed.⟶
LIGO Confirms Detection of Gravitational Waves (2016)
PhysicsAstronomyGravitational WavesGeneral RelativityLIGOBlack HolesCosmology
United StatesUnited States