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Black-body theory and the quanum discountinuty 1894-1912

By: Kuhn, Thomas S.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York Clarendon Press.Oxford 1978Description: xiii;356p.ISBN: 0195023838.Subject(s): Blackbody radiation-History | Quantum theory-HistoryDDC classification: 530.12 Summary: This book traces the gradual emergence, during the first decade of the present century of the concept of a discontinuous physics. As the conviction was established, the black-body problem lost its central role in the development of quantum concepts, for it offered no clues to the source and nature of discontinuity.
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This book traces the gradual emergence, during the first decade of the present century of the concept of a discontinuous physics. As the conviction was established, the black-body problem lost its central role in the development of quantum concepts, for it offered no clues to the source and nature of discontinuity.

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