Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays ...

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Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays scattering off electrons was near-incontrovertible evidence that quanta were real.

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