Sources of Quantum Mechanics Hayes and Ronald F

Hayes and Ronald F

which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005

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Sources of Quantum Mechanics Hayes and Ronald FMax Planck's famous lecture of 1900 expressed quantum theory in its essential form, but his statement was just the beginning. This volume features seventeen early papers that developed quantum theory into its modern form. These papers appeared from 1917 to 1926 and were written by the leading physicists of the early twentieth century. The collection begins with Einstein's "On the Quantum Theory of Radiation," an illuminating derivation of Planck's