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1687Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Shared thread 1939Nuclear fission Shared thread 1543De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Shared thread 1927Uncertainty principle Shared thread 1858Publication of Darwin's theory Shared thread 1932Discovery of the neutron Shared thread

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July 29, 1925

Matrix mechanics

The famous paper's author list contained one name, not three — and the date usually given as its publication is the day the journal stamped it “received.”

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