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Photoelectric Effect Paper Submitted

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

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1905

Albert Einstein17 March 1905

Bern · Science / Physics

Sends his light-quantum paper to Annalen der Physik, using quanta to explain the photoelectric effect.

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Albert Einstein

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