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Quantum mechanics has greatly developed our understanding of physics, chemostry and the universe as a whole. For one, it has enabled scientists to uncover and explain the structre of atoms and other sub-atomic particles. Also, it gives answers to some of the problems which cannot be solved using classical physics - the Ultraviolet Catastrophe was one aspect where classical physics failed.

Wolfgang Pauli discovered the phenomenon of electron spin, Niels Bohr the structure of the orbits, and Max Planck solved the mystery of the Black Body Radiation (and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, by quantizing energy into E=hf). Other famous quantum physicists include: Dirac, Einstein, Heisenberg, Boltzmann, Schroedinger...

Also, scientists are currently looking into constructing and designing a functional 'quantum computer' - which would be immensely powerful.

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