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11 Cards in this Set
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corpuscular theory of light
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Isaac newton
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wave theory of light
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Christian Huygens
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double slit experiment (and what does it prove)
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Thomas Young (proved the wave theory)
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theory of electromagnetism (and what that means)
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James Clerk Maxwell (light is a traveling electromagnetic field)
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first American to win Nobel Prize in science
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Albert Abraham Michelson
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invented the interferometer
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Albert Abraham Michelson
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MIchelson-Morley experiments disproved what
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(luminiferous) aether theory
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IR, UV
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william Friedrich Herschel
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Radio, Microwaves
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Heinrich Hertz
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xray
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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gamma ray
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Ernest Rutherford
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