- 1687 - Laws of motion and law of gravity: Newton
- 1782 - Conservation of matter: Lavoisier
- 1785 - Inverse square law for electric charges confirmed: Coulomb
- 1801 - Wave theory of light: Young
- 1803 - Atomic theory of matter: Dalton
- 1806 - Kinetic energy: Young
- 1814 - Wave theory of light, interference: Fresnel
- 1820 - Evidence for electromagnetic interactions: Ampère, Biot, Savart
- 1824 - Ideal gas cycle analysis, internal combustion engine: Sadi Carnot
- 1827 - Electrical resistance, etc.: Ohm
- 1838 - Lines of force, fields: Michael Faraday
- 1838 - Earth's magnetic field: Weber
- 1842–3 - Conservation of energy: Mayer, Kelvin
- 1842 - Doppler effect: Kelvin
- 1845 - Faraday rotation (light and electromagnetic): Faraday
- 1847 - Conservation of energy 2: Joule, Helmholtz
- 1850–1 - Second law of thermodynamics: Clausius, Kelvin
- 1857–9 - Kinetic theory: Clausius, Maxwell
- 1861 - Black body: Kirchhoff
- 1863 - Entropy: Clausius
- 1864 - Dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field: Maxwell
- 1867 - Dynamic theory of gases, Maxwell
- 1871–89 - Statistical mechanics: Boltzmann, Gibbs
- 1884 - Boltzmann derives Stefan radiation law
- 1887 - Electromagnetic waves: Hertz
- 1893 - Radiation law: Wien
- 1895 - X-rays: Röntgen
- 1896 - Radioactivity: Becquerel
- 1897 - Electron: Thomson
- 1900 - Formula for Black body radiation: Planck
- 1905 - Special relativity: Einstein
- Photoelectric effect: Einstein
- Brownian motion: Einstein
- 1911 - Equivalence principle
- Discovery of the Atomic nucleus: Rutherford
- Superconductivity: Kamerlingh Onnes
- 1913 - Bohr model of the atom: Bohr
- 1916 - General relativity: Einstein
- 1919 - Light bending confirmed
- 1922 - Friedmann proposes expanding universe
- 1923 - Stern-Gerlach experiment
- Matter waves
- Galaxies
- Particle nature of photons confirmed
- 1925–7 - Quantum mechanics
- 1925 - Stellar structure understood
- 1927 - Big Bang: Lemaître
- 1928 - Antimatter predicted: Dirac
- 1929 - expansion of universe confirmed: Hubble
- 1932 - Antimatter discovered: Anderson
- Neutron discovered: Chadwick
- 1937 - Muon discovered: Anderson & Neddermeyer
- 1938 - Superfluidity discovered
- Energy production in stars understood
- 1939 - Uranium fission discovered
- 1944 - Theory of magnetism in 2D: Ising model
- 1947 - Pion discovered 1948 - Quantum electrodynamics
- 1956 - Electron neutrino discovered
- 1956–7 - Parity found violated
- 1957 - Superconductivity explained
- 1959–60 - Role of topology in quantum physics, predicted and confirmed
- 1962 - SU(3) theory of strong interactions Muon neutrino found
- 1963 - Quarks predicted
- 1967 - Unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions
- Solar neutrino problem found
- Pulsars (neutron stars) discovered
- 1968 - Experimental evidence for quarks found
- 1970–3 - Standard model of elementary particles invented
- 1971 - Helium 3 superfluidity
- 1974 - Black hole radiation predicted
- Renormalization group
- Charmed quark found
- 1975 - Tau lepton found
- 1977 - Bottom quark found
- 1980 - Quantum Hall effect
- 1981 - Theory of cosmic inflation proposed
- 1982 - Fractional quantum Hall effect
- 1995 - Bose–Einstein condensate found
- 1995 - Top quark found
- 2000 - Tau neutrino found
- 2003 - WMAP observations of Cosmic microwave background
- 2012 - Higgs Boson found
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