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  John Dalton wrote his atomic theory.
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  J.J. Thomson discovers the electron.
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  Ernest Rutherford conducts his gold foil experiment.
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  Niels Bohr develops his version of the atomic model.
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  Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity.
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  Louis de Broglie postulated the wave nature of electrons.
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  Werner Heisenberg makes a breakthrough in quantum mechanics.
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  Erwin Schrodinger published a paper that is now known as the Schrodinger Equation.