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1923 – Arthur Compton: Particle nature of photons confirmed by observation of photon momentum; 1924 – Bose–Einstein statistics; 1924 – Louis de Broglie: De Broglie wave; 1925 – Werner Heisenberg: Matrix mechanics; 1925–27 – Niels Bohr & Max Planck: Quantum mechanics; 1925 – Stellar structure understood [citation needed]
1638 - Galileo Galilei publishes Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (which were materials science and kinematics) where he develops, amongst other things, Galilean transformation; 1644 - René Descartes suggests an early form of the law of conservation of momentum
Science and religion: 1st Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion: Unknown: Unknown: Philosophy. Reported in the New York Times (September 11, 1940, p. 30, col. 2) and also in Nature, 146, 605–607. Schilpp 291: 1942: Foreword: Introduction to the theory of relativity, p. v: Peter G. Bergmann: Prentice-Hall (New York) Special and ...
However, this now famous Michelson–Morley experiment again yielded a negative result, i.e., no motion of the apparatus through the aether was detected (although the Earth's velocity is 60 km/s different in the northern winter than summer). So the physicists were confronted with two seemingly contradictory experiments: the 1886 experiment as ...
Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen pointed out that, in this state, if the position of the first particle were measured, the result of measuring the position of the second particle could be predicted. If instead the momentum of the first particle were measured, then the result of measuring the momentum of the second particle could be predicted.
John D. Norton, a well-known philosopher of science, has noted that "a good thought experiment is a good argument; a bad thought experiment is a bad argument." [ 3 ] When effectively used, the irrelevant particulars that convert a straightforward argument into a thought experiment can act as "intuition pumps" that stimulate readers' ability to ...
The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517198-5. Nye, Mary Jo (1996). Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800–1940. New York: Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-9512-X. OCLC 185866968. Segrè, Emilio (1984).
Albert Einstein (/ ˈ aɪ n s t aɪ n /, EYEN-styne; [4] German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity.