THE HISTORY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Quantum mechanics emerged from a series of discoveries that challenged classical physics.

1900 — Max Planck

Energy was proposed to come in discrete packets: quanta.

1905 — Albert Einstein

Explained the photoelectric effect using light quanta.

1913 — Niels Bohr

Introduced quantized energy levels in atoms.

1924 — Louis de Broglie

Proposed that matter can also behave like a wave.

1925–26 — Heisenberg & Schrödinger

Developed matrix mechanics and wave mechanics, the foundations of modern quantum mechanics.

1926 — Max Born

Gave the wave function its probabilistic interpretation.

1928 — Paul Dirac

Combined quantum mechanics with relativity and predicted antimatter.
From quanta to quantum fields, these ideas transformed our understanding of matter, energy, and reality.

And this is only the beginning

In future posts, we’ll go deeper into these ideas, experiments, theories, and the physicists who shaped quantum mechanics.

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