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RF - Physicists
Consist of 20th Century Physicists and their experiments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Onion Model" of an atom. Atomic Theory: Energy level, of atoms, shells, | Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish |
| Wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics . All particles have a characteristic wavelength dependent on their momentum. Purely causal interpretation. | Louis de Broglie (1892–1987) |
| The first explained the photoelectric effect in terms of discretion electromagnetic radiation. Brownian motion. Maxwellian electrodynamics. energy of a body is equal to its mass times the speed of light squared. | Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German |
| fermions. beta-decay chains. Manhattan Project. statistical physics . electronics and solid-state technologies. Fermi-Dirac statistics. | Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Italian |
| path integral formulation of quantum theory.. creation of quantum electrodynamics. F_______ diagram. | Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American |
| explain the implications of the Big Bang theory . Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory. cosmic microwave background radiation. | George Gamow (1904–1968) Russia, died in U.S. |
| Matrix interpretation of quantum theory.... uncertainty principle . allotropic forms of hydrogen...........................1932 Nobel Prize in Physics | Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German |
| Correctly modeling how an object radiates heat, solving the ultraviolet catastrophe, . _______’s Law of Radiation., ______'s Constant | Max Planck (1858–1947) German |
| gold foil experiment, decay of carbon-14 , carbon dating , he discovered the proton and neutron, _______________ium, atomic number 104) | Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) New Zealand |
| ________________'s cat. time-independent and time-dependent equations, | Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian |
| Found Radium and Plutonium | Marie (1867–1945) and Pierre (1859–1906) Curie Russia |
| ___________'s Equation. was one of the first to attempt a generalization of quantum theory to relativistic speeds, the result of which was the _______ equation. | Paul Dirac (1902–1984) English |
| predicted the existence of quarks, which compose protons, neutrons, and other, heavier particles. | Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929) American |
| Oil Drop Experiment | Robert Millikan (1868–1953) |
| oversaw much of the Manhattan project, but was later stripped of his security clearance during the McCarthy-era Red Scare, as a result of his acquaintance with communists and his enmity with Edward Teller. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American |
| namesake exclusion principle prohibits most types of particles from occupying the same state, and forms the basis for chemical bonds. | Wolfgang Pauli’s (1900–1958) Austrian |
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