Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions

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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 Eug?e F?ix 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