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nounBabylonian consort of Anu
Definition that contains antum
- born British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)
- classical (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- quantum a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory
- quantum (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
- planck German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)
- dirac English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984)
- photon a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle
- hoffmann United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
- qed a relativistic quantum theory of the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons and muons
- exclusion principle no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers