MODERN PHYSICS

TIMELINE
Modern physics is a branch of physics which deals with the post-Newtonian
concepts in the world of physics. It is based on the two major
breakthroughs of the twentieth century: Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

Modern physics often involves an advance description of nature through

new theories which were different from the classical descriptions and
involves elements of quantum mechanics and Einsteinian relativity.

1879
JOSEF STEFAN

formulated a law
which states that the
radiant energy of a 1884
blackbody

LUDWIG BOLTZMANN

Explains Stefan's empirical law

and claimed that no approach
in natural science that avoids
hypotheses
1885

JOHANN JAKOB BALMER

He explains the empirical

desciption of line spectra
emitted by H atoms 1890
JOHANNES ROBERT
RYDBERG

was a Swedish physicist mainly

known for devising the Rydberg
formula which is used to
1893 describe the wavelengths of
photons emitted by changes in
WILHEM WIEN the energy level of an electron in
a hydrogen atom.
German physicist who
received the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1911 for his
displacement law
concerning the radiation
emitted by the perfectly
efficient blackbody

REFERENCES
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