Timeline of Development in Theoretical Physics

Timeline of Development in Theoretical Physics

Kepler's laws of planetary motion1609, 1619
The Galilean principle1632
Newton's laws of motion1687
Newton's law of universal gravitation1687
Laws of thermodynamics1824, 1873, 1930s
Coulomb's law1785
Biot–Savart law1820
Ampere's Law1826
Faraday's law of induction1831
Boltzmann equation1872
Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves1873
Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction1889, 1892
Planck proposes quanta solution to radiation ultraviolet catastrophe1900
Einstein proposes the photon1905
Special relativity1905
General relativity1916
Schwarzschild metric1916
Kaluza-Klein models
FRW Metric1922, 1935, 1937
Chandrasekhar limit1935
J. J. Thompson model
Rutherford model1912
Bohr model1913
Bose–Einstein statistics1924
De Broglie wave1924
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle1927
Heisenberg Matrix Mechanics1925
Fermi-Dirac Statistics1926
Schrödinger equation1926
Born Interpretation1927
Dirac equation1927
Dirac antiparticle1930
S-Matrix
Feynman Path Integral1941
Feynman rules and diagrams1948
Quantum electrodynamics1948
Yang–Mills theory
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Electroweak unification
Renormalizability of gauge theories
Renormalization group
Veneziano model
QCD, quarks and gluons
Supersymmetry
Supergravity
Black Hole Entropy1972
Hawking radiation1974
Cosmic inflation
BRST symmetry
Skyrmions
Quantum computers
Bosonic strings
NSR strings
Green–Schwarz superstrings
Heterotic strings
T-duality
Loop quantum gravity
SUSY dark matter
Dark energy as cosmological constant
Matrix models/M-theory1994, 1996, 1997
Randall-Sundrum models
Mirror symmetry
AdS/CFT and the holographic principle