Yesterday in Physics

May 11

1918: Richard P. Feynman
- Nobel Prize in 1965 "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
- Bio from the Nobel website
1924: Antony Hewish
- Nobel Prize in 1974 "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars"
- Bio from the Nobel website

1686: Otto von Guericke
- "Otto von Guericke was the inventor of the nothing we now call a vacuum."
- More: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_otto_von_guericke.htm
1891: A. E. Becquerel
- "best known for his discovery and unraveling the key principle to solar energy cells, the photovoltaic effect"
- More: http://www.solareworld.com/2011/06/17/solar-history-alexandre-edmond-becquerel/
1916: Karl Schwarzschild
- Made three successful predictions from Einstein's theory of gravity.
- More: http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/schwarzschild.html
1934: Orest Khvolson
- "He is most noted for being one of the first to study the gravitational lens effect"
- More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest_Khvolson
2011: Maurice Goldhaber
- Best known for determining the helicity of the neutrino.
- More: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/goldhaber-maurice.pdf