Light Discoveries

By adamzawati

  • Newton shines white light through prism

    Newton shines white light through prism
    Newton refracted white light through a prism leading it to be a spectrum of colors.

  • Ole Christensen Rømer

    Ole Christensen Rømer
    Ole Christensen Rømer claimed that light travels at a finite speed and does not travel instantaneously.

  • Christiaan Huygens

    Christiaan Huygens
    Christiaan Huygens believed that light is made up of waves and that different colors correspond with different wave lengths.

  • Thomas Young

    Thomas Young
    He performed the famous double slit experiment. He shone monochromatic light through a single slit which provided light that was in phase. Then shown coherent light through two small slits, and saw an interference pattern.

  • James Clerk Maxwell

    James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell discovered that light is a wave of a changing electric field creating a changing magnetic field which travels through space with a speed of 3.0 x 10^8 m/s.

  • Max Plank

    Max Plank
    He found that energy was consumed in discrete bundles, called quanta.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Einstein created the quantum theory of light. It was the idea that light travels in particles that he called photons. Later on in 1905 he proved that energy and matter are linked.

  • Creation of the first laser

    Theodore Maiman produced the first working laser.

  • First full 3d television.

    The first full 3d television was created in 2010.