Gabriele VenezianoItalian scientist

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  • string theory ( in string theory: Relativity and quantum mechanics )

    ...generally ignored relativistic effects. Instead, by the late 1960s the focus was on a different force—the strong force, which binds together the protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei. Gabriele Veneziano, a young theorist working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), contributed a key breakthrough in 1968 with his realization that a 200-year-old formula, the...

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