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Talk:Photoelectric effect (view source)
Revision as of 15:36, October 26, 2008
, 15:36, October 26, 2008→Timeline: Planck's idea was that light is emitted in quantized wave packets of energy at a particular frequency
#''Einstein is peculiar in that he was well known for being very jealous about crediting anyone but himself.'' So was Gauss. And Lenard was a rabid anti-semite. All accounts agree - on the other hand - that Max Planck was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet - the Nazi propaganda called him a ''white Jew''. All of them made valuable contributions to science. And one of Einstein's contributions was to explain the photoelectric effect by introducing light-quanta - an explanation, Lenard hadn't thought of and Planck was surprised by.
#''Einstein is peculiar in that he was well known for being very jealous about crediting anyone but himself.'' So was Gauss. And Lenard was a rabid anti-semite. All accounts agree - on the other hand - that Max Planck was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet - the Nazi propaganda called him a ''white Jew''. All of them made valuable contributions to science. And one of Einstein's contributions was to explain the photoelectric effect by introducing light-quanta - an explanation, Lenard hadn't thought of and Planck was surprised by.
--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 07:43, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 07:43, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
: So you are saying that Planck's idea was that light is emitted in quantized wave packets of energy at a particular frequency, and Einstein's idea was that light is emitted as a particle. Einstein was correct while Planck was wrong or did not understand what he did or reluctant to take the quantum leap or otherwise somehow underdeserving of credit for quantizing light. Is that right? [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 11:36, 26 October 2008 (EDT)