Word: quanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only two undergraduates took Nat Sci 100, "The Nature of Certainty in Physical Experiments," for credit last Fall and Nat Sci 113, "Crystals, Quanta, and Electrons," has an enrollment of just 20 this Spring...
...David Bohr could have chosen no better age in which to live. By the time he was in college, physics was in fascinating chaos. Blow after blow had shattered its foundations: Albert Einstein proved that matter is energy, Max Planck proved that energy comes in indivisible packets he called quanta. Lord Rutherford proved that though the very name atom means "indivisible" in Greek, atoms are not indivisible. Nothing seemed certain. One physicist declared that all students should be warned: "Caution! Dangerous structure! Closed for reconstruction...