ABSTRACT
The important discoveries and events that occurred in the development of quantum mechanics may be ordered as follows:
Blackbody radiation formulated by Max Planck in 1901.
Photoelectric effect interpreted by Albert Einstein in 1905.
Model of the atom proposed by Ernest Rutherford in 1911.
Quantum theory of atomic spectra developed by Niels Bohr in 1913.
Photon–electron scattering experiments done by Arthor Holly Compton in 1922.
Exclusion principle proposed by Wolfgang Pauli in 1925.
Matter waves proposed by Prince Louis Victor de Broglie in 1925.
Wave equation proposed by Erwin Shrödinger in 1926.
Electron diffraction experiments done by Clinton Joseph Davisson and L.H. Germer in 1927.
Uncertainty principle proposed by Werner Karl Heisenberg in 1927.
Interpretation of the wave function done by Max Born in 1927.
Relativistic wave equation proposed by Paul A. M. Dirac in 1928.
