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Relativity
Brownian Motion
Light as the photon |
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helped with discovery of nuclear fission
helped with construction and operation of a particle accelerator |
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| Robert Andrew Millikan[image] |
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| Nobel Prize for measuring the fundamental charge of electricity |
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demonstrated existence of atomic nucleus
received Nobel prize in chemistry |
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| Neils Henrik David Bohr[image] |
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| theory of the compound nucleus, description of the liquid drop model of the nucleus |
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| Fredrick Lindermann[image] |
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worked out a theory of how to get out of a tail spin
solved many little problems |
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F=m*a
unified field theory |
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Born-Karman theory
Born approximation |
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| wave-particle theory of electrons |
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correct theory of neutrino
demonstrated nuclear chain reactions
thermal stuff |
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| Jean Fredric Joliot[image] |
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designed first particle accelerator in West Europe
created artificial radioactivity |
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| Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza[image] |
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| discovered super fluidity |
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original formulation of quantum mechanics
beginning treatment of quantum electrodynamics
realistic wave equation of the electron
antiparticles
theory of monopoles |
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| Marie Goeppert Mayer[image] |
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| developed the "magic numbers" that fixed the shell model theory |
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basic treatment of quantum transitions
formulated the uncertainty principal
developed theory of nuclear reactor
father of quantum physics |
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| J. Robert Oppenheimer[image] |
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| worked to develop the nuclear bomb in America |
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| theoretical prediction of the meson |
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| Satyendranath Bose[image] |
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| Bose-Einstein condensation |
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