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Bose Light-Quantum Manuscript Reaches Einstein

Germany · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1924

Albert Einstein1924

Berlin · Science / 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.

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Albert Einstein

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