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Albert at his first lecture for
the Institute for Advanced
Study, 1933.
Another of Albert’s academic highlights was
the 1935 publication of the “Einstein-Podolsky-
Rosen Paradox” (or EPR Paradox for short),
on which Albert worked with two other
physicists—Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen.
Together, the three of them used the EPR
Paradox to question quantum mechanics (QM).
what is quantum In basic terms, quantum mechanics (QM)
mechanics? explains how atoms, and things made up of
atoms, work. QM also attempts to explain how
electromagnetic waves, such as light, function.
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