SPH4U-5 EARLY QUANTUMTHEORY-WANTEDPOSTER PRJ#1

Background

Twomajor discoveriesshook theworldof physics intheearlypart of the20^th century.OnewastheSpecial Theory of Relativity.TheotherwastheQuantumTheory.Boththeoriesledtosignificantchangesinhowwelookatthephysical world.TheSpecial Theoryof Relativitywasthesolecreationofoneman,AlbertEinstein,inasingleyear,1905.TheQuantumTheorydevelopedmoreslowly,overaperiodof30years,andwasbasedonworkcontributedbymanyscientists(seelistbelow).Itbeganinthe1890swithstudiesof "blackbody" radiation, andreacheditsclimaxinthetheoryof quantummechanics,usedbyHeisenbergandSchrdingerinthe1920stoexplainthebehaviourofelectronsinatoms.

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YourTask

In this century our understanding of the behaviour of energy and matter has beenirrevocablyalteredbythequantumtheory. As such, you anda partner are tomakea"WantedPoster" of oneof thescientists listedabove(visualizetheoldfashionedwantedpostersfromwesterns).Thepostershouldincludethe followinginformation:

NeilsBohr LawrenceBragg(&MaxvonLaue)

LouisdeBroglie ArthurCompton

ClintonDavisson(&LesterGermer) AlbertEinstein

JamesFranck(&GustavHertz) WernerHeisenberg*

HeinrichHertz GustavKirchhoff

PhilippLenard RobertMillikan

WolfgangPauli MaxPlanck

ErnestRutherford ErwinSchrdinger

Biographicalinformation

• Photo Date&Placeofbirth/death(?)
• Educational background Earlyinterestinscience
• Interestingfact(s)about Writtenwork
• Awards

Researchinformation

• Areaofstudy Majorexperiment(s)
• Briefexplanationofexperiment(s) Significanceofresults

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Theinfoistobepresentedinpointformwiththeaidoftheheadingslisted.

Theinfo must betyped,grammatically andphonetically correct,and be neat andeasytoread.