Golden Age of Modern Physics
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The Golden Age of Modern Physics lasted from the 1880s to 1945, with a paradigm shift in physics, with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, leading up to the first atomic bomb and other innovations.
Many of the celebrity scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics. The era represented a transition of research from individual scientists to the "big science" from World War II and onwards, and saw the rise and fall of Germany as a great power of natural science, heralding the dominance of the United States.
See nuclear tourism for nuclear sites past World War II.
UnderstandGod does not play dice with the universe. By the late 19th century, the theories of mechanics and electromagnetism were seen as completed.
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