2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics 1992 Event Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 1905 Death Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 1840 Birthday Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company 1788 Birthday Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist 1672 Event Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
