THOMAS YOUNG
1803 (double-slit experiment)
ALBERT MICHELSON, EDWARD MORLEY
1887 (Michelson-Morley experiment)
GEORGE FRANCIS FITZGERALD
1892 (Fitzgerald contractions)
HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ
1893 (Lorentz transformations)
ELECTRON
1897 (discovered)
MAX PLANCK
1900 (quantum hypothesis)
ALBERT EINSTEIN
1905 (photon theory) 1905 (special theory of relativity)
HERMANN MINKOWSKI
1908 (space-time)
NUCLEUS
1911 (discovered)
NIELS BOHR
1913 (specific-orbits model of the atom)
ALBERT EINSTEIN
1915 (General theory of relativity)
LOUIS DE BROGLIE
1924 (matter waves)
NIELS BOHR, H. A. KRAMERS, JOHN SLATER
1924 (first concept of probability waves)
WOLFGANG PAULI
1925 (exclusion principle)
WERNER HEISENBERG
1925 (matrix mechanics)
ERWIN SCHRODINGER
1926 (Schrodinger wave equation) 1926 (equates matrix mechanics with wave mechanics) 1926 (visits Bohr in Copenhagen to attack the idea of quantum jumps - and gets the flu)
MAX BORN
1926 (probability interpretation of wave function)
NIELS BOHR
1927 (complementarity)
CLINTON DAVISSON, LESTER GERMER
1927 (Davisson-Germer experiment)
WERNER HEISENBERG
1927 (uncertainty principle)
COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
1927
PAUL DIRAC
1928 (anti-matter)
NEUTRON
1932 (discovered)
POSITRON
1932 (discovered)
JOHN VON NEUMANN
1932 (quantum logic)
ALBERT EINSTEIN, BORIS PODOLSKY NATHAN ROSEN
1935 (EPR paper)
HIDEKI YUKAWA
1935 (predicts meson)
MESON
1947 (discovered)
RICHARD FEYNMAN
1949 (Feynman diagrams)
SIXTEEN NEW PARTICLES
1947-1954 (discovered)
MANY WORLDS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
1957
DAVID FINKELSTEIN
1958 (one-way membrane hypothesis)
QUASARS
1962 (discovered)
QUARKS
1964 (hypothesized)
J. S. BELL
1964 (Bell's theorem)
DAVID BOHM
1970 (implicate order)
HENRY STAPP
1971 (nonlocal connections re: Bell's theorem)
STUART FREEDMAN, JOHN CLAUSER
1972 (Freedman-Clauser experiment)
TWELVE NEW PARTICLES
1974-1977 (discovered)
ALAIN ASPECT
1982 (Aspect experiment)
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