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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Is known by many as the father of the periodic table.
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Werner Heisenberg
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Created the “uncertainty principle.”
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Albert Einstein
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Applied another man’s work to explain the photoelectric effect.
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Louis de Broglie
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Theorized that if electrons had the dual properties of waves, so could any object that has a velocity.
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Erwin Shrodinger
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He dealt with wave functions and probability densities, helping define the shapes of orbitals.
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Max Planck
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Stated that energy may be absorbed or emitted only in discrete quantities known as quanta.
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Wolfgang Pauli
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Stated that each electron in an atom has a unique set of quantum numbers.
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Niels Bohr
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Said that electrons move in “orbits” around nuclei.
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Friedrich Hund
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Stated that electrons will fill empty orbitals in the same subshell before pairing electrons in orbitals.
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