Portal:Physics/Anniversaries/December


 * 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus.
 * 1900 - The peer reviewed journal "Nature" reports on Duddell's "Singing Arc" American Physical Society.
 * 1942 - First self-sustained nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi. American Physical Society
 * 1968 – Apollo 8 Launched
 * 1995 – Hubble Deep Field images taken.

Births

 * 1852 - Henri Becquerel
 * 1900 - George Eugene Uhlenbeck
 * 25 December, 1642 - Isaac Newton
 * 5 December, 1901 - Werner Heisenberg
 * 18 December, 1856 - J. J. Thomson