Quantum tunnelling

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DEFINITION Quantum tunnelling or tunneling refers to the quantum mechanical phenomenon

DEFINITION

Quantum tunnelling or tunneling refers to the quantum mechanical phenomenon where

a particle tunnels through a barrier that it classically could not surmount.
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HISTORY Quantum tunnelling was developed from the study of radioactivity, which

HISTORY

Quantum tunnelling was developed from the study of radioactivity, which was

discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Radioactivity was examined further by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, for which they earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Ernest Rutherford and Egon Schweidler studied its nature, which was later verified empirically by Friedrich Kohlrausch. The idea of the half-life and the impossibility of predicting decay was created from their work.

Henri Becquerel

Ernest Rutherford

Friedrich Kohlrausch