Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates A timeline of atomic and subatomic physics, including particle physics.

Antiquity

  • 6th - 2nd Century BCE Kanada (philosopher) proposes that anu is an indestructible particle of matter, an "atom"; anu is an abstraction and not observable.<ref name="Roopa Narayan">Template:Cite book</ref>

Beginnings of chemistry

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Modern physics

Rise of quantum field theory

Age of the Standard Model

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  • 2000 scientists at Fermilab announce the first direct evidence for the tau neutrino, the third kind of neutrino in particle physics.<ref name=fermilabDiscoveries />
  • 2000 CERN announced quark-gluon plasma, a new phase of matter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

References

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