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The article explores the early ideas and contributions of William Rowan Hamilton related to wave and particle theories, which foreshadowed the development of quantum mechanics, highlighting his analogies and influence on later scientists like de Broglie and Schrödinger.
William Rowan Hamilton's development of mechanics using light-ray analogies in the 1820s laid the groundwork for quantum mechanics a century later, with his ideas influencing the wave-particle duality and the formulation of Schrödinger's wave equation, which is central to modern quantum physics and technology.