1997 ⟶ Fermilab Experiments Discover Top Quark
CDF and DØ experiments at Fermilab: Top quark.
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⚛️ Antimatter First Synthesized
Antimatter first produced.⟶
PhysicsParticle PhysicsFundamental ParticlesExperimental PhysicsDiscovery
United States⚛️ 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⟶
PhysicsParticle PhysicsExperimental PhysicsQuantum Mechanics20th Century Science
United States⚛️ Gell-Mann and Zweig Propose Quarks
Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig: postulates quarks, leading to the standard model⟶
PhysicsParticle PhysicsStandard ModelTheoretical Physics
United States⚛️ First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created
Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle attained the first Bose-Einstein Condensate with atomic gases, so called fifth state of matter at an extremely low temperature.⟶
PhysicsQuantum MechanicsExperimental Physics
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