Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Worklist of central experiments

| Investigation and support of Bohr model of the atom

| Good start level page

| Kicked off the discovery of new chemical elements and atomic physics

| History covered in Spectrum analysis, good experimental page missing?

| Boosted atomistic theories by demonstrating the conservation of mass in chemical reactions

| Missing, but explained in biographic articles.

| Charge of the electron established

| Article describes mostly the generic experiment, more historical, more picture. Improving to GA-Article

| Direct demonstration of rotation of earth

| solid article, with referencing and editing could be a GA

| Big Bang

| Good Article

| Hot Big Bang theory

| Within "Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation" (Start?)

| Crucial test of hot big bang (black body temp curve)

| Subsection in COBE, start class

| Crucial test of cosmic inflation

| Subsection in COBE, start class

| Unexpected results show accelerating expansion

| Small stubs at High-z Supernova Search Team and Supernova Cosmology Project, subsection in Dark energy

| Wave nature of light

| Reasonable coverage in article on generic experiment, more historical background would be nice

| First wireless communication

| Start quality in bio

| Inspired and tested Quantum electrodynamics (QED)

| Larger section in Lamb shift article.

| Critical test of Quantum electrodynamics (QED)

| Missing. Some text in Anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Landé g-factor

| Inspired and tested Quantum electrodynamics (QED)

| Larger section in Lamb shift article.

| Critical test of Quantum electrodynamics (QED)

| Missing. Some text in Anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Landé g-factor

| Indirect confirmation of the existence of gravitational radiation

| strong stub in PSR B1913+16

| Direct test of the gravitational redshift of light

| strong stub

| Direct test of the gravitational deflection of light

| discussed in Arthur Stanley Eddington and tests of GR

| Test of SR and GR time dilation (velocity and gravity difference)

| B-class, needs improvement, under dispute on inclusion of GPS

| First test of relativistic mass increase. Initially thought to be at odds with STR

| ?

| Crucial test of SR.

| ?

| Crucial test of SR.

| ?

| Unexpected result led to questions in pre-SR theory

| GA?

| classical equivalence principle

| stub in Loránd Eötvös

| established the value of the Newton constant

| strong stub

| Identifying the neutron

| Section in James Chadwick, stubby start?

| Atomic nucleus (Rutherford model)

| B-quality

| Unexpected nuclear reaction

| Under Nuclear fission#History

| Fermions

| more detail, data, and explanation needed

| Proved the existence of antimatter

| Missing, mentioned in positron and Carl David Anderson

| Direct detection of the neutrino

| B-class

| Discovery of CP-violation

| Subsection in CP-violation, start

| Parity_violation in weak interactions verified

| missing (Chien-Shiung Wu)

| Identified the electron via mass-to-charge ratio

| Part of Electron

| Discovery of the W and Z bosons

| Stubs. But also see W and Z bosons.

| Wave–particle duality for electrons

| stub, see also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie_hypothesis#Experimental_confirmation], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_diffraction#History], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Paget_Thomson], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Joseph_Davisson]

| Series of tests of QM using CHSH inequality and similar predictions

| Missing (mentioned in "Bell_test_experiments")

| Tests of QM using CHSH inequality

| B-class and under dispute

| Discovery of spin of electron/atom

| looks reasonably complete; no class rating

| Proved the periodic structure of atoms within certain solids

| B-class, concentrates mostly on theory

| Superconductivity discovered by Onnes

| Missing. Section in History of superconductivity

| Mechanical equivalent of heat established

| start quality in James_Prescott_Joule#The_mechanical_equivalent_of_heat