Heisenberg founds quantum mechanics
1925
On a hayfever retreat to the North Sea island of Heligoland, Werner Heisenberg worked out the mathematics of atomic behavior as arrays of numbers. Born and Jordan soon recognized these as matrices. Within eighteen months Schrodinger had his wave equation. Physics had a new fundamental theory, and it was impossibly strange.
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