Claus Jönsson (born 26 May 1930) is a
German physicist who in 1961 performed for the first time a version of the
double-slit experiment
In modern physics, the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics ...
with a single
electron.
In 2002 it was named "the most beautiful experiment" by readers of ''
Physics World''.
[Schönstes physikalisches Experiment aller Zeiten in Tübingen durchgeführt]
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. 25 September 2002
References
20th-century German physicists
1930 births
Living people
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