Topic: quantum electrodynamics
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Reference
Einstein, A..T On a heuristic point of view concerning the production and transformation of light,
Annalen der Physik, 17, March 1905, pp. 132-148.
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Other Reference
page 177-197 in Stachel, J. (ed.), Einstein's Miraculous Year, Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics, Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press, 1998
Quotations
178 ;;Quote: the energy of light is discontinuously distributed in space; e.g., black-body radiation and photoluminesce
| 178+;;Quote: light consists of a finite number of energy quanta localized in space; moving without dividing; absorbed or generated only as complete units
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Topic: quantum electrodynamics (34 items)
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