Albert Einstein, famously, contracted Issues with the field of quantum-mechanics he'd started. In 1927 he floated an experiment to refute Niels Bohr, at least his Complementarity.
The year after that, Paul Dirac would incorporate Einstein's (special) relativity to formulate quantum-mechanics in its mature form. Thus, I think, explaining why gold is yellow and why quicksilver melts. Dirac tends to be hoisted to about the same rank as Einstein himself for this work.
Meanwhile apparently nobody could actually run Einstein's experiment. Or, wouldn't. I don't know why not; it seems excellent grist for research. Most physicists were chasing particles, Sabine thinks. This left gaps in the lower-budget verification of basics which is still, you know... physics. What if someone's wrong?
Einstein being wrong about the quantum level isn't really news (as Dirac noted, Einstein was right about relativity). That he put up rather than shutting up, is what I like best of him.
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