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<p>Moved article here</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Originally published in a paper by George Johnson in The New York Times.<br /> <br /> # '''Double-slit electron diffraction''' (by French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed in 1924)<br /> # '''Galileo's experiment on falling objects''' (by Italian Galileo Galilei in the late 1500s)<br /> # '''Millikan's oil-drop experiment''' (by the American physicist Robert A. Millikan in 1909)<br /> # '''Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism''' (by [[Sir Isaac Newton]] in 1665)<br /> # '''Young's light-interference experiment''' (by English physician and physicist Thomas Young in 1803)<br /> # '''Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment''' (by the English scientist Henry Cavendish in 1797-98)<br /> # '''Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference''' (by Eratosthenes ''circa'' 276 BCE)<br /> # '''Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes''' (by Italian Galileo Galilei in the late 1500s)<br /> # '''Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus''' (by Ernest Rutherford in 1911)<br /> # '''Foucault's pendulum''' (by French scientist Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault in 1851)<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> * [http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/top10.htm Source of the above information]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Science]]</div>

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