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This sandbox also has an archive with my older work; a „back burner” of a sort.

Timeline of physiscs awards

This list includes awards in Physics, but not purely astronomical awards; see a separate list.

Before 20th century

• 1731: Copley Medal.
• 1800: Rumford Medal.
• 1826: Royal Medal.

20th century

• 1901: The first Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen.
• 1902: Hughes Medal.
• 1925: Lorentz Medal.
• 1929: Max Planck Medal.
• 1951: Albert Einstein Award (IAS).
• 1953: Eddington Medal.
• 1962: Maxwell Prize
• 1978: Wolf Prize in Physics.
• 1978: Wigner Medal.
• 1984: Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
• 1985: Dirac Medal (ICTP).
• 1985: Sakurai Prize.
• 1987: Dirac Medal (IOP).
• 1988: Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture.

21st century

• 2001: Enrico Fermi Prize.
• 2003: Einstein Prize (APS).
• 2008: Isaac Newton Medal is established by IOP.
• 2012: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Timeline of astronomy awards

• Prix Jules Janssen
• Herschel Medal

Timeline of special relativity and the speed of light

Timeline of special relativity’s notation and terminology

• 1894 – Paul Drude introduces the symbol c for speed of light in vacuum.
• 1905 – Henri Poincaré introduces the name Lorentz transformations.
• 1906 – Alfred Bucherer introduces the name theory of relativity, based on Max Planck’s term relative theory.
• 1909 – Gilbert N. Lewis and Richard Tolman coin the disputed term relativistic mass.
• 1911 – Alfred Robb coins the term rapidity.
• 1967 – Gerald Feinberg introduces the term tachyon for hypothetical particles with speeds higher than that of light in vacuum (c).

Tasks

• Biographies to write:
  1. Paul Halcke (1662–1731), de:Paul Halcke (2016);
  2. Anton Lampa (1868–1938), de:Anton Lampa (2006);
  3. Karl Erich Hupka (1884–1919), de:Karl Erich Hupka (2015);
  4. Jean-Paul Auffray (1926–), fr:Jean-Paul Auffray (2017);
  5. István Ozsváth (1928–2013), eo:István Ozsváth (2016);
  6. Bogdan Mielnik (1936–2019) es:Bogdan Mielnik (2021);
  7. Henry R. Noble,
  8. Günther Neumann,
  9. Charles Lavanchy,
  10. David B. Hall,
  11. Hermann Starke,
  12. Kurt Wolz,
  13. Klaus Scharnhorst.

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