List of experiments in physics

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!Date of start

!Experiment

!Attribution

!Type

!About

|Delft tower experiment

|Simon Stevin and Jan Cornets de Groot

|Demonstration

|Same mass objects fall at the same speed on Earth

|Torricelli's experiment

|Evangelista Torricelli

|Demonstration

|Vacuum relation to atmospheric pressure

|Magdeburg hemispheres

|Otto von Guericke

|Demonstration

|Atmospheric pressure

|Rømer's determination of the speed of light

|Ole Rømer

|Measurement

|Speed of light

|Kite experiment

|Thomas-François Dalibard/Benjamin Franklin

|Investigation

|Lightning

|Schiehallion experiment

|Nevil Maskelyne

|Measurement

|Vertical deflection, Earth density

|Pictet's experiment

|Marc-Auguste Pictet

|Demonstration

|Thermal radiation

|Cavendish experiment

|Henry Cavendish

|Measurement

|Gravitational constant

|Voltaic pile

|Alessandro Volta

|Demonstration

|First electric battery

|Young's interference experiment

|Thomas Young

|Confirmation

|Wave theory of light

|Arago spot experiment

|François Arago

|Confirmation

|Fresnel diffraction due to circular object

|Bedford Level experiment

|Samuel Rowbotham

|Measurement

|Curvature of the Earth

|Faraday's ice pail experiment

|Michael Faraday

|Demonstration

|Electromagnetic induction

|Foucault's measurements of the speed of light

|Léon Foucault

|Measurement

|Speed of light

|Fizeau experiment

|Hippolyte Fizeau

|Measurement

|Speed of light

|Foucault pendulum

|Léon Foucault

|Demonstration

|Earth's rotation

|Foucault's gyroscope

|Léon Foucault

|Demonstration

|Earth's rotation

|Kelvin water dropper

|Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

|Demonstration

|Electrostatic generator

|Tyndall's bar breaker

|John Tyndall

|Demonstration

|Thermal expansion forces

|Eötvös experiment

|Loránd Eötvös

|Measurement

|Ratio between inertial and gravitational mass

|Michelson–Morley experiment

|Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley

|Negative result

|Luminiferous aether

|Thomson experiment

|J. J. Thomson

|Discovery

|Electron

|Trouton–Noble experiment

|Frederick Thomas Trouton and H. R. Noble.

|Negative result

|Luminiferous aether

|Rubens tube

|Heinrich Rubens

|Demonstration

|Standing wave

|Geiger–Marsden experiments

|Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden, Ernest Rutherford

|Discovery

|Atomic nucleus

|Oil drop experiment

|Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher

|Measurement

|Elementary charge of the electron

|Compton generator

|Arthur Compton

|Demonstration

|Earth's rotation

|Franck–Hertz experiment

|James Franck and Gustav Hertz

|Confirmation

|Bohr model

|Blondel's experiments

|André Blondel

|Investigation

|Electromagnetic induction

|Einstein–de Haas experiment

|Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas

|Investigation

|Electron magnetic moment

|Eddington experiment

|Arthur Eddington

|Confirmation

|General relativity

|Stern–Gerlach experiment

|Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach

|Confirmation

|Angular momentum quantization

|Davisson–Germer experiment

|Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer

|Confirmation

|De Broglie hypothesis

|Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment

|Walther Bothe and Hans Geiger

|Confirmation

|Compton effect / conservation of energy

|Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment

|Albert A. Michelson and Henry G. Gale

|Measurement

|Earth's rotation

|Rüchardt experiment

|Eduard Rüchardt

|Measurement

|Heat capacity ratio

|Kennedy–Thorndike experiment

|Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike

|Confirmation

|Inertial frame invariance of speed of light

|Ives–Stilwell experiment

|Herbert E. Ives and G. R. Stilwell

|Confirmation

|Relativistic Doppler shift

|Chicago Pile-1

|Enrico Fermi

|Demonstration

|First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction

|Trinity

|Manhattan Project

|Demonstration

|First nuclear weapon detonation

|Lamb–Retherford experiment

|Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford

|Discovery

|Lamb shift/Vacuum energy

|Wu experiment

|Chien-Shiung Wu

|Confirmation

|Parity violation

|Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment

|Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines

|Confirmation

|Existence of neutrino

|Hughes–Drever experiment

|Giuseppe Cocconi and Edwin Ernest Salpeter

|Confirmation

|Lorentz covariance

|Pound–Rebka experiment

|Robert Pound and Glen A. Rebka Jr.

|Confirmation

|Gravitational redshift

|Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation

|Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson

|Discovery

|Cosmic microwave background

|Homestake experiment

|Raymond Davis Jr. and John N. Bahcall

|Measurement

|Count solar neutrinos/solar neutrino problem

|Gargamelle

|CERN

|Discovery

|Neutral currents

|Gravity Probe A

|NASA

|Measurement

|Gravitational time dilation

|De Sitter double star experiment

|Kenneth Brecher

|Negative result

|de Sitter effect

|Aspect's experiment

|Alain Aspect

|Confirmation

|Violation of Bell's inequalities

|UA1 and UA2 experiments

|CERN

|Discovery

|W and Z bosons

|DØ experiment

|CERN

|Multiple

|Top quark

|Delayed-choice quantum eraser

|Marlan Scully

|Demonstration

|Delayed-choice (quantum mechanics)

|Gravity Probe B

|NASA/Stanford University

|Confirmation

|Frame-dragging

|Search for the Higgs boson

|CERN

|Confirmation

|Higgs boson

|First observation of gravitational waves

|LIGO

|Confirmation

|Gravitational waves