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Planck Radiation Law Reinterpreted with Quanta

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

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1906

Albert Einstein1906

Bern · Science / Physics

Einstein re-examined Planck's radiation theory and emphasized that its success could be understood more naturally if radiation exchanged energy with matter in finite quantum amounts.

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Albert Einstein

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