Alfred Scharff Goldhaber is a professor in the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and a 2014 winner of the State University of New York Chancellors Award in Scholarship and Creative Activity. He teaches an unorthodox course approaching quantum mechanics through optics.
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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a ri... SEE MORE