Hallmarks of Modern Physics
These are generally considered to be the topics regarded as the "core" of the foundation of modern physics:
- Atomic theory and the evolution of the atomic model in general
- Black body radiation
- Franck–Hertz experiment
- Geiger–Marsden experiment (Rutherford's experiment)
- Gravitational lensing
- Michelson–Morley experiment
- Photoelectric effect
- Quantum thermodynamics
- Radioactive phenomena in general
- Perihelion precession of Mercury
- Stern–Gerlach experiment
- Wave–particle duality
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