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Father of quantum mechanics

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It is not clear . Some books advocates Max plank, some Neils Bohr , some Erwin Schrodinger and some even say Heisenberg . Definitely Max Planck. No Doubt !

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Max Planck was the first to use ideas of quantum theory when he solved the "ultraviolet catastrophe" in December of 1900. At the time, however, neither he nor the vast majority of the scientific community noticed the implications of his "quantization of energy."

In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper on the photoelectric effect in which he described energy transfer via light in the form of photons. He was one of the first physicists to acknowledge that particles could only obtain certain discrete energies.

Many textbooks, however, will credit Max Planck as the "father of quantum theory."

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Max Planck is not only the father of quantum mechanics.Those who took part in the discovery of quantum mechanics are known as founding fathers and they are Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Born,Jordan, Pauli, Fermi, Schrodinger, Dirac, de Broglie, Bose. They all made notable contributions.

Note: Quantum mechanics is not only the invention of one or two scientists.

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Probably Werner Heisenberg, because he came up with the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle (look further into this) essentially suggested that the way particles--particularly electrons--interact in the physical world is all based on probability. This but quantum mechanics away form all of the other sciences at that time. Thus making Heisenberg be the father, because he came up with the Uncertainty Principle.

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