User:Tarnoob/sandbox

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’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:
 * Paul Halcke (1662–1731), de:Paul Halcke (2016);
 * Anton Lampa (1868–1938), de:Anton Lampa (2006);
 * Karl Erich Hupka (1884–1919), de:Karl Erich Hupka (2015);
 * Jean-Paul Auffray (1926–), fr:Jean-Paul Auffray (2017);
 * István Ozsváth (1928–2013), eo:István Ozsváth (2016);
 * Bogdan Mielnik (1936–2019) es:Bogdan Mielnik (2021);
 * Henry R. Noble,
 * Günther Neumann,
 * Charles Lavanchy,
 * David B. Hall,
 * Hermann Starke,
 * Kurt Wolz,
 * Klaus Scharnhorst.