Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 by Thomas S. Kuhn

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912



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ISBN: 0226458008, 9780226458007
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Page: 399
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press


Thomas Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity: 1894-1912 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978). In 1894 Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation. Thomas Kuhn also points to a 1906 paper by Einstein as “the birth of the quantum theory.” See Thomas S. Kuhn, Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity 1894-1912, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978. For an excellent history of this sort of thing see "Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912" by Thomas S. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance. Http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD33-2/TAD33-2-fnl-pg8-24-pdf.pdf. Thomas Kuhn, Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Missouri Western State University. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution. A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Planck doesn't know what he's found until Einstein and Ehrenfast figure it out for him.