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Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
Timeline
of
states of matter
and
phase transitions
1895
-
Pierre Curie
discovers that induced magnetization is proportional to
magnetic field
strength
1911
-
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
discovers
superconductivity
1912
-
Peter Debye
derives the T-cubed law for the low temperature heat capacity of a nonmetallic solid
1925
- Ernst Ising presents the solution to the one-dimensional Ising model and models
ferromagnetism
as a cooperative
spin
phenomenon
1929
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and
Werner Karl Heisenberg
develop the quantum theory of
ferromagnetism
1932
- Louis Eugène Félix Neel discovers
antiferromagnetism
1933
- Walter Meissner and R. Ochsenfeld discover perfect superconducting
diamagnetism
1933
-
1937
-
Lev Davidovich Landau
develops the Landau theory of
phase transitions
1937
- Petr Leonidovich Kapitza and John Frank Allen discover
superfluidity
1941
-
Lev Davidovich Landau
explains
superfluidity
1942
-
Hannes Alfven
predicts
magnetohydrodynamic
waves in plasmas
1944
-
Lars Onsager
publishes the exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model
1957
-
John Bardeen
, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer develop the BCS theory of superconductivity
end of the 50th
-
Lev Davidovich Landau
develops the theory of
Fermi liquid
1959
-
Philip Warren Anderson
predicts
localization
in disordered systems
1972
- Douglas Osheroff, Robert Richardson, and David Lee discover that helium-3 can become a
superfluid
1974
- Kenneth Wilson develops the renormalization group technique for treating phase transitions
1980
- Klaus von Klitzing discovers the
quantum Hall effect
1982
- Horst L. Stoermer and Daniel C. Tsui discover the fractional quantum Hall effect
1983
- Robert B. Laughlin explains the fractional quantum Hall effect
1987
- Alex Muller and Georg Bednorz discover high critical temperature ceramic superconductors