Also: alpha decay, scanning tunneling microscope, STM
Particles can pass through barriers they classically could not cross, explaining radioactive decay and enabling atom-imaging microscopes.
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Binnig, Rohrer and colleagues demonstrated surface microscopy using vacuum tunneling for the first time, imaging surfaces at the atomic scale.
As reported in: Binnig, Rohrer, Gerber et al. (1982). Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Physical Review Letters. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.57
Gamow's quantum theory of the atomic nucleus.
As reported in: Gamow (1928). Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes. Zeitschrift f�r Physik. doi:10.1007/BF01343196
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