Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Worklist of central experiments

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Atomic theory

Article	Relevance	Status
Franck–Hertz experiment	Investigation and support of Bohr model of the atom	Good start level page
Gas emission spectrum experiment	Kicked off the discovery of new chemical elements and atomic physics	History covered in Spectrum analysis, good experimental page missing?
Lomonosov-Lavoisier experiment	Boosted atomistic theories by demonstrating the conservation of mass in chemical reactions	Missing, but explained in biographic articles.
Millikan's Oil-drop experiment	Charge of the electron established	Article describes mostly the generic experiment, more historical, more picture. Improving to GA-Article

Article	Relevance	Status
Foucault pendulum	Direct demonstration of rotation of earth	solid article, with referencing and editing could be a GA

Article	Relevance	Status
Hubble and Humason's discovery of Hubble's law	Big Bang	Good Article
Penzias-Wilson microwave detection	Hot Big Bang theory	Within "Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation" (Start?)
COBE FIRAS experiment	Crucial test of hot big bang (black body temp curve)	Subsection in COBE, start class
COBE DMR experiment	Crucial test of cosmic inflation	Subsection in COBE, start class
High-z supernova observation	Unexpected results show accelerating expansion	Small stubs at High-z Supernova Search Team and Supernova Cosmology Project, subsection in Dark energy

Article	Relevance	Status
Young's Double-slit experiment	Wave nature of light	Reasonable coverage in article on generic experiment, more historical background would be nice

Article	Relevance	Status
1887 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz EM-wave transmission	First wireless communication	Start quality in bio

Article	Relevance	Status
Lamb-Retherford experiment	Inspired and tested Quantum electrodynamics (QED)	Larger section in Lamb shift article.
Landé g-factor experiment of the electron	Critical test of Quantum electrodynamics (QED)	Missing. Some text in Anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Landé g-factor

Article	Relevance	Status
Lamb shift discovery (Lamb-Retherford experiment?)	Inspired and tested Quantum electrodynamics (QED)	Larger section in Lamb shift article.
Landé g-factor experiment of the electron	Critical test of Quantum electrodynamics (QED)	Missing. Some text in Anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Landé g-factor

Article	Relevance	Status
Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar	Indirect confirmation of the existence of gravitational radiation	strong stub in PSR B1913+16
Pound-Rebka experiment	Direct test of the gravitational redshift of light	strong stub
Eddington experiment	Direct test of the gravitational deflection of light	discussed in Arthur Stanley Eddington and tests of GR
Hafele-Keating experiment	Test of SR and GR time dilation (velocity and gravity difference)	B-class, needs improvement, under dispute on inclusion of GPS
Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann experiments	First test of relativistic mass increase. Initially thought to be at odds with STR	?
Ives-Stilwell experiment	Crucial test of SR.	?
Kennedy-Thorndike experiment	Crucial test of SR.	?
Michelson-Morley experiment	Unexpected result led to questions in pre-SR theory	GA?

Article	Relevance	Status
Eötvös experiment	classical equivalence principle	stub in Loránd Eötvös
Cavendish experiment	established the value of the Newton constant	strong stub

Article	Relevance	Status
Chadwick experiment	Identifying the neutron	Section in James Chadwick, stubby start?
Geiger-Marsden experiment a.k.a. Rutherford experiment	Atomic nucleus (Rutherford model)	B-quality
Hahn-Strassmann discovery of fission	Unexpected nuclear reaction	Under Nuclear fission#History
Fermionic condensate	Fermions	more detail, data, and explanation needed

Article	Relevance	Status
Anderson's cosmic ray experiment	Proved the existence of antimatter	Missing, mentioned in positron and Carl David Anderson
Cowan and Reines neutrino experiment	Direct detection of the neutrino	B-class
Cronin-Fitch experiment	Discovery of CP-violation	Subsection in CP-violation, start
Parity_violation in β-decay	Parity_violation in weak interactions verified	missing (Chien-Shiung Wu)
Thomson cathode ray tube experiments	Identified the electron via mass-to-charge ratio	Part of Electron
UA1 and UA2	Discovery of the W and Z bosons	Stubs. But also see W and Z bosons.

Article	Relevance	Status
Davisson-Germer experiment	Wave–particle duality for electrons	stub, see also [1], [2], [3], [4]
Aspect experiments	Series of tests of QM using CHSH inequality and similar predictions	Missing (mentioned in "Bell_test_experiments")
Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test	Tests of QM using CHSH inequality	B-class and under dispute
Stern-Gerlach experiment	Discovery of spin of electron/atom	looks reasonably complete; no class rating

Article	Relevance	Status
Bragg diffraction	Proved the periodic structure of atoms within certain solids	B-class, concentrates mostly on theory
Onnes experiment	Superconductivity discovered by Onnes	Missing. Section in History of superconductivity

Article	Relevance	Status
Joule experiment	Mechanical equivalent of heat established	start quality in James_Prescott_Joule#The_mechanical_equivalent_of_heat