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Bose Light-Quantum Manuscript Reaches Einstein

Satyendra Nath Bose sent Einstein a manuscript deriving Planck's radiation law by a new statistical counting method applied directly to indistinguishable light quanta.

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Bose Light-Quantum Manuscript Reaches Einstein

1924 · Berlin · Germany · Physics

Satyendra Nath Bose sent Einstein a manuscript deriving Planck's radiation law by a new statistical counting method applied directly to indistinguishable light quanta.