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Oil Drop Experiment to measure the electron charge

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1909, Robert Millikan

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Measurement of the speed of light using rotating mirrors

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1849, Armand Fizeau

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Discovery of the photoelectric effect

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1905, Albert Einstein (explanation), 1887, Heinrich Hertz (observation)

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Experiment to determine the existence of the atomic nucleus

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1911, Ernest Rutherford

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Observation of X-ray diffraction by crystals

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1912, Max von Laue

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Measurement of the deflection of starlight by gravity during a solar eclipse

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1919, Arthur Eddington

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Demonstration of wave-particle duality of matter through electron diffraction

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1927, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer

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Detection of neutrinos

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1956, Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines

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Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation

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1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson

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Verification of time dilation using atomic clocks and aircraft

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1971, Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating

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Detection of the W and Z bosons

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1983, Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer

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Discovery of the top quark

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1995, CDF and D0 Collaborations at Fermilab

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Direct detection of gravitational waves

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2015, LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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Confirmation of the Higgs boson particle

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2012, ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN

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First demonstration of quantum teleportation

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1997, Dik Bouwmeester, Jian-Wei Pan, Klaus Mattle, Manfred Eibl, Harald Weinfurter and Anton Zeilinger

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Demonstration of superconductivity at room temperature

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2020, Ranga Dias and colleagues

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Confirmation of the existence of the ozone hole

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1985, British Antarctic Survey

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First direct measurements of the Earth's rotation

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1851, Léon Foucault

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Discovery of the positron (antielectron)

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1932, Carl Anderson

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Discovery of pulsars

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1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish

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