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Niels Bohr
Developed the Bohr model of the atom and the principle of complementarity.
Werner Heisenberg
Formulated the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and contributed to the creation of matrix mechanics.
Albert Einstein
Explained the photoelectric effect using the quantization of light and introduced the concept of the photon.
Max Planck
Originator of quantum theory, introduced the concept of the quantum of action, now known as the Planck constant.
Arthur Compton
Discovered the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of photons.
Paul Dirac
Formulated the Dirac equation, which describes fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter.
Erwin Schrödinger
Developed wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation, which describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time.
Wolfgang Pauli
Proposed the Pauli exclusion principle and was involved in the development of the theory of spin.
Max Born
Helped develop statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics and contributed to the formulation of matrix mechanics.
Louis de Broglie
Hypothesized the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties (wave-particle duality).
David Bohm
Formulated the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics which is a non-local hidden variable theory.
Murray Gell-Mann
Introduced the concept of quarks, constituents of hadrons, and developed the eightfold way classification scheme.
Pascual Jordan
Co-founder of matrix mechanics and contributed to the early development of quantum field theory.
Hugh Everett III
Proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which regards all possible outcomes of quantum measurements as equally real.
Julian Schwinger
His reformulation of quantum electrodynamics resolved the infinite renormalization and contributed to the theory of quantum field theory.
Paul A. M. Dirac
Pioneered the use of operators and developed the transformation theory which unifies matrix and wave mechanics.
John von Neumann
Contributed to the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics and the concept of the quantum mechanical operator.
Richard Feynman
Introduced the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and developed Feynman diagrams.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Worked on Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the quantum gas which led to the concept of the boson.
Enrico Fermi
Developed the theory of beta decay and Fermi-Dirac statistics for understanding fermions.
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