Albert Einstein - Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian

The Birth of the Quantum Hypothesis (1x3)

Fecha de emisión: Ene 01, 2008

By his own account, Einstein's most revolutionary idea of 1905 was that light is made of discrete chunks of electromagnetic energy called light quanta, or photons. You examine the background to this radical idea, most importantly, Max Planck's proposal in 1900 of the quantum hypothesis.