The foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the 20th century

by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Albert
Einstein, Erwin Schrdinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi,
Wolfgang Pauli, Max von Laue, Freeman Dyson, David Hilbert, Wilhelm Wien, Satyendra Nath
Bose, Arnold Sommerfeld, and others. The Copenhagen interpretation of Niels Bohr became
widely accepted.
In the mid-1920s, developments in quantum mechanics led to its becoming the standard
formulation for atomic physics. In the summer of 1925, Bohr and Heisenberg published results
that closed the old quantum theory. Out of deference to their particle-like behavior in certain
processes and measurements, light quanta came to be called photons (1926). From Einstein's
simple postulation was born a flurry of debating, theorizing, and testing. Thus, the entire field of
quantum physics emerged, leading to its wider acceptance at the Fifth Solvay Conference in
1927.[citation needed]
It was found that subatomic particles and electromagnetic waves are neither simply particle nor
wave but have certain properties of each. This originated the concept of waveparticle duality.
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