TIMELINE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

 1801: Thomas Young performs the double-slit experiment, demonstrating the wave-like nature
of light.
 1820: Hans Christian Oersted discovers that electric current produces a magnetic field, paving
the way for the development of electromagnetism.
 1838: Michael Faraday discovers the phenomenon of diamagnetism, the weak repulsion of
materials in a magnetic field, which leads to the discovery of paramagnetism and
ferromagnetism.
 1865: James Clerk Maxwell publishes "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", which
unifies the fields of electricity and magnetism and predicts the existence of electromagnetic
waves.
 1897: J.J. Thomson discovers the electron, a subatomic particle with a negative charge, which
challenges the classical view of the atom as indivisible.
 1900: Max Planck introduces the concept of quanta, or discrete packets of energy, to explain
the behavior of blackbody radiation.
 1905: Albert Einstein proposes the photoelectric effect, showing that electromagnetic radiation
behaves as both waves and particles, and receives the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
 1911: Ernest Rutherford discovers the atomic nucleus, the positively charged center of the
atom, through his gold foil experiment.
 1913: Niels Bohr introduces the Bohr model of the atom, which explains the spectral lines of
hydrogen in terms of discrete energy levels.
 1924: Louis de Broglie proposes the wave-particle duality hypothesis, suggesting that particles
have wave-like properties and vice versa.
 1925: Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle, which states that certain pairs of
physical properties cannot both be known precisely at the same time.
 1926: Erwin Schrödinger develops the wave equation, a mathematical description of the wave-
like behavior of particles in quantum mechanics.
 1927: Heisenberg formulates the matrix mechanics approach to quantum mechanics, which
treats observables as matrices that operate on wave functions.
 1927: Max Born introduces the probability interpretation of wave functions, which explains the
probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.
 1928: Paul Dirac develops relativistic quantum mechanics, which incorporates Einstein's theory
of special relativity into quantum mechanics.
 1932: James Chadwick discovers the neutron, an uncharged subatomic particle, which adds a
new element to atomic theory.
 1935: Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen publish the EPR paper, which describes a thought
experiment that challenges the completeness of quantum mechanics.
 1957: Hugh Everett introduces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which
suggests that the universe splits into multiple parallel universes whenever a quantum
measurement is made.
 1964: John Bell formulates Bell's theorem, which provides a way to test the validity of quantum
mechanics against local realism.
 1982: Alain Aspect performs the first experimental test of Bell's theorem, confirming the non-
locality of quantum mechanics.
 2016: Scientists at the University of Glasgow perform the first successful teleportation of a
particle's quantum state, demonstrating the potential of quantum computing and
communication.