I am student of bsc.(hons.)physics..i need to discuss any of the experiment that changed the world..i have tried but i need some more suggestions..some of the experiments i found revolutionary are listed below..
1. henery cavendish weighing the earth
2. young's double slit experiment
3.Rutherford's work on atoms
4.michelson morley experiment
5.Faraday's work in electromagnetism
6.Archimedes discovery of upthrust
please suggest more and help me to choose one most revolutionary experiment...

I'd suggest almost any published experiment from more than 20 years ago, many from less time than that.

 

Someone once said something about the shoulders of giants. That's not changed much in the 300 years since.

please suggest more and help me to choose one most revolutionary experiment...

7. Cloud Chamber..

 

It allowed visualization of radioactive decays, cosmic rays, and detection of plentiful of new charged particles, positron, muon, pion, kaon, etc.

 

3.Rutherford's work on atoms

On this video you can see Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment performed inside of Cloud Chamber.

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Any of Newton's work on optics.

 

Hooke's studies of elasticity.

Microwave background radiation discovery.

Microwave background radiation discovery.

Which was more an accident than a targeted experiment, but that is interesting in itself. (So pigeons had a role to play in evolutionary theory and Big Bang theory.)

Which was more an accident than a targeted experiment, but that is interesting in itself. (So pigeons had a role to play in evolutionary theory and Big Bang theory.)

Just another excremental advancement in science...

I would say that the first nuclear bomb test changed the world for all time as well.

 

Maybe not for the better, but it was definitely the most influential experiment of the last century.

Millikan oil drop

Stern-Gerlach

Galileo

How about Tesla's work on AC?

Galileo's experiment on falling bodies from the Leaning Tower of Pisa

J.J. Thompson's experiment on cathode rays in a discharge tube

Rutherford's gold foil experiment

Henry Becquerel's investigation on the radioactivity of uranium samples

Oersted's experiment

Faraday's experiment