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19th century
1815 - William Prout hypothesizes that all matter is built up from hydrogen, adumbrating the proton;
1838 - Richard Laming hypothesized a subatomic particle carrying electric charge;
1858 - Julius Plücker produced Cathode rays;
1874 - George Johnstone Stoney hypothesizes a minimum unit of electric charge. In 1891, he coins the word electron for it;
1886 - Eugene Goldstein produced Anode rays;
1897 - J. J. Thomson discovered the electron;
1899 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the alpha and beta particles emitted by uranium;
1900 - Paul Villard discovered the Gamma ray in uranium decay.
20th century
1905 - Albert Einstein hypothesized the photon to explain the photoelectric effect.
1911 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus of an atom;
1919 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton;
1928 - Paul Dirac postulated the existence of positrons as a consequence of the Dirac equation;
1930 - Wolfgang Pauli postulated the neutrino to explain the energy spectrum of beta decays;
1932 - James Chadwick discovered the Neutron;
1932 - Carl D. Anderson discovered the Positron;
1935 - Hideki Yukawa predicted the existence of mesons as the carrier particles of the strong nuclear force;
1936 - Carl D. Anderson discovered the muon while he studied cosmic radiation;
1947 - George Dixon Rochester and Clifford Charles Butler discovered the Kaon, the first strange particle;
1947 - Cecil Powell, Cesar Lattes and Giuseppe Occhialini discovered the pion;
1955 - Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Clyde Wiegand, and Thomas Ypsilantis discovered the Antiproton;
1956 - Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines discovered the neutrino;
1957 - Bruno Pontecorvo postulated the flavor oscillation;
1962 - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger discovered the muon neutrino;
1967 - Bruno Pontecorvo postulated the Neutrino oscillation;
1974 - Burton Richter and Samuel Ting discovered the J/ψ particle;
1977 - Upsilon particle discovered at Fermilab, demonstrating the existence of the bottom quark;
1977 - Martin Lewis Perl discovered the Tau lepton after a series of experiments;
1979 - Gluon observed indirectly in three jet events at DESY;
1983 - Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer discovered the W and Z bosons;
1995 - Top quark discovered at Fermilab;
2000 - Tau neutrino proved distinct from other neutrinos at Fermilab.
2012 - Higgs-Boson-like particle discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
1815 - William Prout hypothesizes that all matter is built up from hydrogen, adumbrating the proton;
1838 - Richard Laming hypothesized a subatomic particle carrying electric charge;
1858 - Julius Plücker produced Cathode rays;
1874 - George Johnstone Stoney hypothesizes a minimum unit of electric charge. In 1891, he coins the word electron for it;
1886 - Eugene Goldstein produced Anode rays;
1897 - J. J. Thomson discovered the electron;
1899 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the alpha and beta particles emitted by uranium;
1900 - Paul Villard discovered the Gamma ray in uranium decay.
20th century
1905 - Albert Einstein hypothesized the photon to explain the photoelectric effect.
1911 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus of an atom;
1919 - Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton;
1928 - Paul Dirac postulated the existence of positrons as a consequence of the Dirac equation;
1930 - Wolfgang Pauli postulated the neutrino to explain the energy spectrum of beta decays;
1932 - James Chadwick discovered the Neutron;
1932 - Carl D. Anderson discovered the Positron;
1935 - Hideki Yukawa predicted the existence of mesons as the carrier particles of the strong nuclear force;
1936 - Carl D. Anderson discovered the muon while he studied cosmic radiation;
1947 - George Dixon Rochester and Clifford Charles Butler discovered the Kaon, the first strange particle;
1947 - Cecil Powell, Cesar Lattes and Giuseppe Occhialini discovered the pion;
1955 - Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Clyde Wiegand, and Thomas Ypsilantis discovered the Antiproton;
1956 - Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines discovered the neutrino;
1957 - Bruno Pontecorvo postulated the flavor oscillation;
1962 - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger discovered the muon neutrino;
1967 - Bruno Pontecorvo postulated the Neutrino oscillation;
1974 - Burton Richter and Samuel Ting discovered the J/ψ particle;
1977 - Upsilon particle discovered at Fermilab, demonstrating the existence of the bottom quark;
1977 - Martin Lewis Perl discovered the Tau lepton after a series of experiments;
1979 - Gluon observed indirectly in three jet events at DESY;
1983 - Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer discovered the W and Z bosons;
1995 - Top quark discovered at Fermilab;
2000 - Tau neutrino proved distinct from other neutrinos at Fermilab.
2012 - Higgs-Boson-like particle discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
