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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

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Johannes Stark
Age: 83 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 15
Died: 1957
Died: June 21
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