Scientific Background
Scientific
advances in the 20th Century
At
the end of the 19th century even visionaries such as H.G. Wells or
Jules Vernes could not have imagined the incredible developments to
follow. The scientific advances of the
20th century- those that led to the
development of the transistor microchip, the computer, the internet, the
laser, and magnetic resonance imaging-
hinged on the development of fundamentally new physical principles: quantum
mechanics, statistical physics and relativity: ideas that were simply unknown
to previous generations of scientists.
The Frontier Science of
Emergent Materials