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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Also in 1925 (4 other events on record)
- Hubble shows the universe is expanding · North America · Science
- Great Gatsby published · North America · Culture
- Scopes Monkey Trial · North America · Culture
- Surrealist Manifesto · Europe · Culture
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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