Portal:Physics/Anniversaries/September


 * 6 September 1809 - Sir George Cayley identifies the four aerodynamic forces


 * 3 September 1821 - Faraday discovers electromagnetic rotation (the principle behind the electric motor).
 * - September 1911 - The Sackur-Tetrode Equation is published in Annalen der Physik.
 * 29 September 1904 - Nature publishes Wood's letter discrediting N-rays.
 * 27 September 1905 - E=mc2 --- Annalen der Physik publishes the Mass–Energy equivalence
 * 9 September 1934: The American Rocket Society (ARS) launched Rocket No. 4 to 400 feet.
 * 17 September 1959 - The first powered X-15 flight.
 * 9 September 1959 - The Atlas 10-D rocket is launched.
 * 1 September 1974 - Pioneer 11 sends polar images of Jupiter.


 * 20 September 1979 - The High Energy Astronomical Observatory (HEAO) 3 is launched.


 * - September 1981 - Invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.

Births

 * 22 September 1791 Michael Faraday (d.1867)
 * 29 September 1901 Enrico Fermi

Deaths

 * 5 September 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann
 * 7 September 1783 - Leonhard Euler
 * 9 September 2003 - Edward Teller