Albert Einstein1923
Experimental scattering results increasingly supported the view that individual radiation quanta carry directed momentum, a requirement already embedded in Einstein's 1917 radiation theory.
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Experimental scattering results increasingly supported the view that individual radiation quanta carry directed momentum, a requirement already embedded in Einstein's 1917 radiation theory.
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