Physicists

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Louis de broglie

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1892-1987
1929 Nobel prize in physics for quantifying wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics
Pronounced [duh BROY]

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Niels Bohr

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1885-1962
Proposed Bohr model of atom
Bohr and son fled to USA and worked on manhattan project under pseudonym Baker

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Albert Einstein

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1879-1955
1905, published four papers concerning photoelectric effect, Brownian motion (random motion of particles in a fluid) special relativity, and e=mc^2
1915, published his general theory of relativity

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Enrico fermi

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1901-1954
Main contributor to manhattan project
Suggested the existence of neutrinos

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Richard Feynman

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1918-1988
Nobel prize in physics 1965 for quantum electrodynamics
Feynman diagrams illustrate interactions of subatomic particles

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George Gamow

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1904-1968
Bing bang theory explainist
Cosmic microwave background radiation after effects of Big Bang

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Werner Heisenberg

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1901-1976
Uncertainty principle
Matrix interpretation of quantum theory
1932 Nobel prize for discovering allotropic forms of hydrogen

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Max Planck

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1858-1947
Ultraviolet catastrophe
Plancks constant
Electromagnetic energy

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Ernest Rutherford

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1871-1937
Gold foil experiment, 1908 Nobel prize
Discovered proton and neutron (latter with James Chadwick)
Only new zealonder with element named after him

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Erwin schrödinger

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1887-1961

Cat experiment,

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Robert Millikan

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Oil drop experiment

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Oppenheimer

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Oversaw manhattan project, stripped from power after red scare

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Wolfgang Pauli

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Exclusion principle