The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
From Christoph's Personal Wiki
Originally published in a paper by George Johnson in The New York Times.
- Double-slit electron diffraction (by French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed in 1924)
- Galileo's experiment on falling objects (by Italian Galileo Galilei in the late 1500s)
- Millikan's oil-drop experiment (by the American physicist Robert A. Millikan in 1909)
- Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism (by Sir Isaac Newton in 1665)
- Young's light-interference experiment (by English physician and physicist Thomas Young in 1803)
- Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment (by the English scientist Henry Cavendish in 1797-98)
- Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference (by Eratosthenes circa 276 BCE)
- Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes (by Italian Galileo Galilei in the late 1500s)
- Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus (by Ernest Rutherford in 1911)
- Foucault's pendulum (by French scientist Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault in 1851)
