Optics Timeline
Optics is the physical science that studies the origin and propagation of light, how it changes, what effects it produces, and other phenomena associated with it. This "Optics Timeline" highlights important events and developments in the science of optics from prehistory to the beginning of the 21st century. It also includes related developments in other fields and related milestones in the human worldview.
1900
- 1900 — Quantum Physics introduced.
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Max Planck
- 1900 — Kodak Brownie Camera
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Eastman
- 1900 — Developed the science of crystal analysis via X-ray diffraction
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William Henry Bragg & William Lawrence Bragg
- 1905 — Photoelectric effect explained.
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Albert Einstein
- 1905 — Hale/Palomar telescopes
- 1905 — Hubble theory
- 1906 — Kinemacolor developed
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George Albert Smith and Charles Urban
Kinemacolor was the first commercially successful photographic color process
- 1907 — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investications carried out with their aid."
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A. A. Michelson
- 1907 — Echelon grating spectroscope
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A. A. Michelson
- 1909 — Measured the charge of an electron.
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Robert A. Milikan