Who Discovered Quantum and Particle Physics?
During the nineteenth century the main theory in physics was still Newtonian Mechanics. With the advances in electricity, magnetism and the studies about light, it was clear that the theory had its limitations. The limitations appeared in the limits of the too small (atomic size) or the too fast (light speed). The study of the small limit took a long path and it has several contributors. It started in the beginning of the 1900s and laid the foundation of the modern quantum and particle physics. Max Plank and Albert Einstein proved that light has discrete particle properties, besides the already known wave’s characteristics (the rainbow is its most natural example of the light seen as wave). The concept is known as duality wave-particle. The particle is known as the photon, and this theory can be observed in practice each time you turn on a florescent light. Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for this discovery (photoelectric effect) and not for the relativistic theory. Plank also
