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Quantized Radiation Emission Reconsidered

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

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1906

Albert Einstein1906

Bern · Science / Physics

Einstein examined how material resonators exchange energy with radiation and strengthened the case that emission as well as absorption must be connected with discrete quantum transfers.

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Albert Einstein

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