Today in Physics

March 26

1938: Anthony J. Leggett
- Nobel Prize in 2003 "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
- Bio from the Nobel website
1951: Eric A. Cornell
- Nobel Prize in 2001 "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
- Bio from the Nobel website

1698: Prokop Divis
- "priest, natural scientist, researcher in physics, particularly in electricity, and the constructor of the lightning rod"
- More: http://old.radio.cz/en/article/89006
1753: Benjamin Thompson
- "one of the first American scientists and his career was probably the strangest of all American success stories"
- More: http://www.rumford.com/Rumford2.html
1875: Max Abraham
- "Abraham�s lifework amounted to the explication of Maxwell�s theory."
- More: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900024.html
1922: Oscar Sala
- "was one of the founders and a scientific director (1959�1965) with the Foundation for Support of Research of the State of Sao Paulo and president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science "
- More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Sala

1992: Polykarp Kusch
- Nobel Prize in 1955 "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
- Bio from the Nobel website

1940: Wilhelm Anderson
- Studied the Physics of the sun's corona.
- More: http://www.aai.ee/muuseum/Reprints/HTML/index.html?wilhelm_robert_karl_anderson.htm
1974: Edward Condon
- "In 1943 Condon was briefly appointed to the Manhattan Project as assistant director under Robert Oppenheimer, but within months he was forced to resign by General Leslie R. Groves. In the late 1960s he headed an exhaustive investigation into unidentified flying objects, culminating in what is called the Condon Report"
- More: http://www.nndb.com/people/476/000164981/