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Max Planck: Emission of Electron Spectrum
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Albert Einstein: Theory of Relativity
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Ernest Rutherford: Atomic Nucleus
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Niels Bohr: Model of the atom
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Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics)
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Alexander Fleming: Penicillin, the first beta-lactam antibiotic
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Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann: Nuclear fission of heavy nuclei
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invent the first transistor
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Vela nuclear test detection satellites discover the first gamma-ray burst
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Klaus von Klitzing discovered the Quantum Hall Effect.
