Vocabulary Assignment for week of 10/9 by Joshua Gerrish

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  1. 5. discovered the electron by experimenting with a Crookes, or cathode ray, tube
  2. 8. the relative overall energy of each orbital, and the energy of each orbital increases as the distance from the nucleus increases
  3. 11. best known for proposing the modern atomic theory and for his research into color blindness
  4. 12. a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory
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  1. 1. a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory
  2. 2. British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics
  3. 3. the central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth
  4. 4. used to describe where electrons are when they go around the nucleus of an atom
  5. 6. a mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of either one electron or a pair of electrons in an atom
  6. 7. the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction
  7. 9. the fixed amount of energy that a system described by quantum mechanics, such as a molecule, atom, electron, or nucleus, can have
  8. 10. a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory