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History Of Science
The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences.
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True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles.
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― Charm of Physics: Collected Essays of Sheldon Glashow
― Charm of Physics: Collected Essays of Sheldon Glashow

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Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure.
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― Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925
― Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

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