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=== Evidence of quanta from the photoelectric effect ===
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The seeds of the quantum revolution appear in the discovery by [[JJ Thomson]] in 1897 that [[cathode rays]] were not continuous but "corpuscles" identical to [[electrons]]. Electrons had been named just six years as part of the emerging theory of [[atoms]]. In 1900, [[Max Planck]], a conservative physicist unconvinced by the [[atomic theory]], discovered that he needed discrete entities like atoms or electrons to explain [[blackbody radiation]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baggott |first=J. E. |title=The quantum story: a history in 40 moments |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-19-965597-7 |edition=Impression: 3 |___location=Oxford}}</ref>
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