Home›Experiments›All ExperimentsBrowse ByAll ExperimentsReference and ClassificationVerifiedLandmark experiments, expeditions and observational studies: the specific, dated pieces of empirical work that tested or established a theory, distinct from the apparatus used to run them and from the theory or finding they produced. It excludes ongoing research programs with no single dated study behind them, and excludes instruments, which have their own category even when built for one experiment.FactsAll ExperimentsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonConcept Term OriginWell-attested1350 1All ExperimentsFilter Results41 entriesDiscipline BranchAllChemistry and Materials Discoveries (3)Fieldwork and Behavior Studies (4)Genetics and Heredity Experiments (6)Geological Evidence Studies (2)Microbiology and Origin of Life Experiments (2)Physics Experiments (9)Weather and Climate Experiments (3)YearAll1774 (1)1797 (1)1801 (1)1850 (1)1859 (1)1861 (1)1864 (1)1865 (1)1887 (1)1894 (1)1898 (1)1906 (1)1909 (2)1912 (2)1913 (1)1915 (1)1919 (2)1922 (1)1924 (1)1925 (1)1928 (1)1944 (1)1945 (1)1952 (3)1953 (1)1957 (1)1958 (2)1961 (2)1963 (1)1964 (1)2012 (1)Tests TheoryAllAbiogenesis (1)Big Bang Theory (1)Continental Drift (1)Dalton's Atomic Theory (1)Deterministic Chaos (1)DNA Double Helix (3)First Law of Thermodynamics (1)General Relativity (1)Germ Theory of Disease (1)Higgs Mechanism (1)Luminiferous Aether (1)Numerical Weather Prediction (1)Oxygen Theory of Combustion (1)Parity Violation (1)Polar Front Theory (1)Quantum Theory (2)Spontaneous Generation (1)The Periodic Table (1)Universal Gravitation (1)Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis (1)Wave-Particle Duality (1)Operated ByAllBell Labs (1)Case Western Reserve University (1)CERN (1)Geophysical Institute, Bergen (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1)Met Office (1)Rockefeller University (1)University of Chicago (2)Yale University (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 412012 Higgs Boson ObservationPhysical SciencesAlvarez Iridium Layer DiscoveryEarth SciencesAndaman Islands FieldworkLife SciencesAvery-MacLeod-McCarty ExperimentLife SciencesBergen School Synoptic Forecasting ProgramEarth SciencesBragg's Analysis of Sodium ChloridePhysical SciencesCavendish ExperimentPhysical SciencesDiscovery of ArgonPhysical SciencesDiscovery of OxygenPhysical SciencesDiscovery of Polonium and RadiumPhysical SciencesDiscovery of the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundPhysical SciencesDouble-Slit ExperimentPhysical SciencesEddington Eclipse Expedition of 1919Physical SciencesFabrication of the Plutonium CorePhysical SciencesFitzRoy's Storm Warnings and Daily ForecastsEarth SciencesGriffith's Transformation ExperimentLife SciencesHershey-Chase ExperimentLife SciencesJoule's Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ExperimentPhysical SciencesKeeling CurveEarth SciencesLorenz's 1961 Numerical Weather SimulationEarth SciencesMendel's Pea Plant ExperimentsLife SciencesMeselson-Stahl ExperimentLife SciencesMichelson-Morley ExperimentPhysical SciencesMilgram Obedience ExperimentLife SciencesMiller-Urey ExperimentLife SciencesMillikan Oil Drop ExperimentPhysical SciencesPasteur's Swan-Neck Flask ExperimentLife SciencesPavlov's Classical Conditioning ExperimentsLife SciencesPhotograph 51Life SciencesRichardson's 1922 Numerical ForecastEarth SciencesRoberts-Austen's Iron-Carbon Constitution DiagramPhysical SciencesRutherford Gold Foil ExperimentPhysical SciencesSamoa FieldworkLife SciencesSorby's Microscopical Study of SteelPhysical SciencesSpemann-Mangold Organizer ExperimentLife SciencesTrobriand Islands FieldworkLife SciencesVine-Matthews-Morley Magnetic Striping StudyEarth SciencesVon Laue's X-ray Diffraction ExperimentPhysical SciencesWegener's Continental Drift EvidenceEarth SciencesWilkins's DNA X-ray Diffraction StudiesLife SciencesWu ExperimentPhysical SciencesSources1. Online Etymology Dictionary: experimenttier 2Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, experiment entry, noun senseQuote, Online Etymology Dictionary, experiment entry, noun sensemid-14c., "action of observing or testing; an observation, test, or trial"View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.