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QUANTUM THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN<br />

'corpuscles’. Thomson proposed the existence of elementary<br />

charged particles, which is now called electrons, as a constituent<br />

of all atoms.<br />

2.2 Discovery of Neutron<br />

James Chadwick (1891-1974)<br />

In 1932 Chadwick proposed the existence of Neutron as a result<br />

of his studies in alpha particle collisions.<br />

2.3 Black Body Radiation<br />

1859 Gustav Kirchhoff’s ((1824 -1887)) studies<br />

in blackbody radiation showed that the energy<br />

radiated by a black body depended on the<br />

temperature of the body. Attempts to explain<br />

this shape of the energy and the wavelength at<br />

which the maximum energy occur continued for several decades<br />

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