I don't really understand much of quantum physics - I'd say as much as someone with a passing interest in chemistry would need to (and that's pretty focused on

I don't really understand much of quantum physics - I'd say as much as someone with a passing interest in chemistry would need to (and that's pretty focused on what groups of electrons get up to), but every once in awhile I'll read about the actual problems and experiments that the old Nobel laureates got up to and all of a sudden something will fall into place. A big key was reading about the ultraviolet catastrophe and how Max Planck basically just played around with equations and sort of hit on quantizing energy levels and almost accidentally invented quantum mechanics. If my education had just been a history of all the discoveries in physics from the end 19th to mid 20th centuries (and to be fair to my education that was mixed in a bit), I think I would have been served a lot better, but I also acknowledge that could be down to my individual way of learning.