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*Described atoms by means of formula connected to the frequencies of spectral lines. *Proposed Principle of Indeterminancy - you can not know both the position and velocity of a particle. *By 1924 physicists in Göttingen and Copenhagen were agreed that the old quantum theory had to be replaced by some new "quantum mechanics." *Heisenberg set himself the task of finding the new quantum mechanics *The famous "three-man paper", setting forth the details of a new matrix-based quantum mechanics, the "matrix mechanics." For more on this topic...
* http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p07.htm * Biography on Nobel prize website * Robert Millikan: Scientist |
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