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Also Known As quanta • quantization

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Listen to Max Planck's light bulb experiment and the origin of quantum theory
How does a quantum computer work?
Understand why quantum mechanics does not make absolute predictions but only predicts the different outcomes to happen
Know about the future of quantum technology and how quantum devices can be present in everyday technology
Know about quantum tunneling and how it affects the way a particle behaves toward its barrier
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Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
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David Bohm
American physicist
Laughlin, Robert B.
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Michel H. Devoret
Michel H. Devoret
French physicist
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Daniel C. Tsui
American physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist
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Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian theoretical physicist
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Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
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Klaus von Klitzing
German physicist
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Felix Bloch
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