Beryl May Dent
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Beryl May Dent was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham
Dent in 1928
Dent's father, Eustace Edward, photographed at Warminster County School in 1926
The family lived at Boreham Road before moving in 1907 to 22 Portway, Warminster
Former Warminster County School, where Dent's father was head teacher
Quantum mechanics
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Quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics, is the fundamental physical theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; the behaviors it models typically occur at and below the scale
Beryl May Dent
…with Sydney Chapman, "The change in lattice spacing at a crystal boundary", that studied the force fields on a thin crystal cleavage. Around this time, quantum mechanics was developed to become the standard formulation for atomic physics. Lennard‑Jones left Bristol in 1929 to study the subject for a year as a Rockefeller…
A simplified diagram of quantum tunneling, a phenomenon by which a particle may move through a barrier which would be impossible under classical mechanics
Max Planck is considered the father of the quantum theory.
The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the fifth world physics conference.