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    The modern physics timeline spans from 1900 to the present, highlighting several important developments: - In the early 20th century, Max Planck and Albert Einstein laid the foundations for quantum theory and relativity, respectively. - Later discoveries included the positron, expanding universe, dark matter, black holes, and quarks. - String theory emerged in the late 20th century as a potential theory of quantum gravity, while inflation theory and dark matter observations continued advancing cosmology.

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    The modern physics timeline spans from 1900 to the present, highlighting several important developments: - In the early 20th century, Max Planck and Albert Einstein laid the foundations for quantum theory and relativity, respectively. - Later discoveries included the positron, expanding universe, dark matter, black holes, and quarks. - String theory emerged in the late 20th century as a potential theory of quantum gravity, while inflation theory and dark matter observations continued advancing cosmology.

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    The modern physics timeline spans from 1900 to the present, highlighting several important developments: - In the early 20th century, Max Planck and Albert Einstein laid the foundations for quantum theory and relativity, respectively. - Later discoveries included the positron, expanding universe, dark matter, black holes, and quarks. - String theory emerged in the late 20th century as a potential theory of quantum gravity, while inflation theory and dark matter observations continued advancing cosmology.

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    Modern Physics Timeline: 1900 - Present

    1901 - Max Planck makes his quantum hypothesis, called Planck's Law - energy is
    carried by indistinguishable units called quanta, rather than flowing in a pure
    continuum
    1905 - Albert Einstein proposes Planck's quantum hypothesis as the physics underlying
    the photoelectric effect, developing quantum theory, one of the two most
    important developments in 20th century physics
    1905 - Einstein publishes his Special Theory of Relativity
    1915 - Emmy Noether publishes Noether's Theorem, discovering the relationship
    between symmetries and conserved currents that will later be crucial to the
    development of quantum gauge field theory and string theory
    1915 - Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity
    1924 - Louis duc de Broglie proposes the particle-wave duality of the electron in his
    doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne
    1926 - Erwin Schrodinger develops his wave equation version of quantum mechanics
    1927 - Werner Heisenberg discovers the Uncertainty Principle
    1928 - Paul Dirac predicts the discovery of the positron
    1929 - Edwin Hubble observes the redshift of distant galaxies and concludes that the
    Universe is expanding
    1931 - Einstein stops using the cosmological constant to keep the Universe from
    expanding.
    1933 - Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky infers existence of dark matter
    1935 - Physicist Subramahnyan Chandrasekhar predicts black holes
    1953 - Murray Gell-Mann lays foundation for the quark
    1964 - Cambridge mathematician Roger Penrose proves that a black hole space/time must
    contain behind the black hole event horizon a singularity where space/time
    physics ceases to make good sense
    1964 - Murray Gell-Mann proposes fundamental particles that Gell-Mann names
    "quarks"
    1968 - Gabriele Veneziano founds modern string theory
    1970 - Yoichiro Nambu, Leonard Susskind, and Holger Nielsen independently discover
    that the dual resonance model devised by Veneziano is based on the quantum
    mechanics of relativistic vibrating strings, and string theory begins
    1973 - Predictions of Great Attractor are made
    1974 - Stephen Hawking combines quantum field theory with classical general relativity
    and predicts that black holes radiate through particle emission
    1974 - Joel Scherk and John Schwarz propose string theory as a theory of quantum
    gravity, an idea that takes ten years to be widely appreciated
    1975 - Vera Rubin announces the existence of dark matter
    1980 - Alan Guth puts forward the idea of an inflationary phase of the early Universe,
    before the Big Bang
    1981 - Michael Green and John Schwarz develop superstring theory
    1986 - Location of Great Attractor is found
    2006 - Dark matter observed separate from ordinary matter

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