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quantum law
subject			fact

quantum law	has domain quantum mechanics
	is a kind of law
law	has discoverer
theory	has validity correct or incorrect with caveats
	has author or reasearch group
	has date or a range of dates for which the theory was active

Kinds of quantum law :

• exclusion principle (6 facts) (Pauli exclusion principle) - Two identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state (i.e. cannot have the same charge, spin, momentum, quantum numbers etc. within the same region of space).
• Fermi-Dirac-Sommerfeld law (3 facts) (FDS) - A law which gives the algebraic number of a quantized system of particles which have velocities within a small range.
• Kirchhoff's law (2 kinds, 6 facts) - (1) To each chemical species there corresponds a characteristic spectrum. (2) Every element is capable of absorbing the radiation which it is able to emit; this is the phenomenon of the reversal of the lines.
• Rayleigh-Jeans law (2 facts) - An approximation of Planck's blackbody formula valid at long wavelengths (hv << kT). It is often used in radio astronomy; it gives the brightness temperature of a radio telescope.
• Stefan's law (2 facts) - The flux of radiation from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature: L = 4πR²σT⁴.
• uncertainty principle (8 facts) (Heisenberg uncertainty principle) - The principle that the fundamental uncertainty in a variable times that in its canonical conjugate is of the order of Planck's constant.
• wave-particle duality (2 facts) - Basic feature of quantum mechanics that objects manifest both wavelike and particle-like properties.
• Wien's law (2 facts) - The wavelength at which a blackbody emits the greatest amount of radiation is inversely proportional to its absolute temperature.