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Newton shines white light through prism
Newton refracted white light through a prism leading it to be a spectrum of colors. -
Ole Christensen Rømer
Ole Christensen Rømer claimed that light travels at a finite speed and does not travel instantaneously. -
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens believed that light is made up of waves and that different colors correspond with different wave lengths. -
Thomas Young
He performed the famous double slit experiment. He shone monochromatic light through a single slit which provided light that was in phase. Then shown coherent light through two small slits, and saw an interference pattern. -
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell discovered that light is a wave of a changing electric field creating a changing magnetic field which travels through space with a speed of 3.0 x 10^8 m/s. -
Max Plank
He found that energy was consumed in discrete bundles, called quanta. -
Albert Einstein
Einstein created the quantum theory of light. It was the idea that light travels in particles that he called photons. Later on in 1905 he proved that energy and matter are linked. -
Creation of the first laser
Theodore Maiman produced the first working laser. -
First full 3d television.
The first full 3d television was created in 2010.
