Albert Einstein1909
Einstein used the statistical behaviour of black-body radiation to argue that purely classical wave theory could not account for all observed fluctuations in radiant energy.
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Einstein used the statistical behaviour of black-body radiation to argue that purely classical wave theory could not account for all observed fluctuations in radiant energy.
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