How has Sir William Rowan Hamilton influenced modern physics?
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Hamilton was one of the most original and creative mathematicians of his time. In his Theory of Systems of Rays (1828) he predicted the existence of conical refraction (later confirmed experimentally by H. Lloyd) and unified the field of optics under the principle of varying action which he later extended to dynamics and which has become of fundamental importance in modern physics particularly quantum theory.
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