Timeline - Modern Physics

• “Modern Physics” was a sudden revolution starting around 1900, and ending ????

• See Timeline description of lives of various scientists on WWW pages.

Einstein

2000

1950

1900

Michelson

Planck

Thomson

Rutherford

Bohr

Special

Relativity

General

Relativity

Quantum Mechanics

De Broglie

Schrodinger

Heisenberg

Transistor

Invented

All the Quarks

discovered

Laser

Invented

Nuclear Energy Released

Expansion

of Universe discovered

Neutron Stars discovered

Start ofQuantum Mechanics

Curie

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