Quantum Mechanics Will Shake You Up

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based.

Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades earlier.  His epiphany that light behaves either like a wave or a particle, depending on how it is observed, paved the way for most of the technology that makes our lives what they are today.  Everything that fits in the category of electronics depends at its core on an understanding of quantum mechanics.

As suggested in the photography here, being the first person to understand how completely bizarre the physical universe really is led Planck to take on a far less conformist demeanor.  Who  can blame him?