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Max Planck and Light Quanta
In 1900, Max Planck announced a solution to the black-body problem, and in doing so set physics on a revolutionary new path altogether.
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The Photoelectric Effect
In addition to his work on relativity in 1905, Einstein published an explanation for the photoelectric effect that earned him the 1921 Nobel Prize.
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The Photoelectric Effect is Solved
As part of his "Miracle Year" in 1905, Albert Einstein gave the new "quantum" ideas a jump start with his solution to a nineteenth century problem.
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Louis de Broglie, Physicist
Brief biography of Louis de Broglie who discovered the wave nature of electrons that established the wave-particle dualism.
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