https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
We have a much bigger physics community today but the closest thing to the above happening are these two events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Dis...
with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observati...
as a distant third that has played out very slowly which is attributed to a very strange theorist character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo
There is public fascination with Steven Hawking, but Hawking's work has been confined to questions where the answers are unobservable (what's inside a black hole? what do you see in 10⁶⁴ years when stellar origin black holes start to pop?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment
We have a much bigger physics community today but the closest thing to the above happening are these two events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Dis...
with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observati...
as a distant third that has played out very slowly which is attributed to a very strange theorist character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo
There is public fascination with Steven Hawking, but Hawking's work has been confined to questions where the answers are unobservable (what's inside a black hole? what do you see in 10⁶⁴ years when stellar origin black holes start to pop?)