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Talk:Photoelectric effect (view source)
Revision as of 17:02, October 26, 2008
, 17:02, October 26, 2008→Timeline: Planck said that light energy was quantized, and Einstein said that the light itself is quantized?
::I don't know whether my points were so garbled - or only your renarration of them is. Einstein's idea is that light can be regarded (at least sometimes) as existing from particles. Planck is clearly ''undeserving of credit for quantizing light'' - and stated so himself, several times. He gave full credit to Einstein, even under difficult circumstances, i.e., living in Nazi-Germany.
::I don't know whether my points were so garbled - or only your renarration of them is. Einstein's idea is that light can be regarded (at least sometimes) as existing from particles. Planck is clearly ''undeserving of credit for quantizing light'' - and stated so himself, several times. He gave full credit to Einstein, even under difficult circumstances, i.e., living in Nazi-Germany.
::One could say that while Planck gave the ''energy'' of a quantum, Einstein gave its ''impulse''. --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 11:52, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
::One could say that while Planck gave the ''energy'' of a quantum, Einstein gave its ''impulse''. --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 11:52, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
::: So are you saying that Planck said that light energy was quantized, and Einstein said that the light itself is quantized? What exactly is the difference? I don't get it. And where did Planck every say that he was undeserving of credit for quantizing light? [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 13:02, 26 October 2008 (EDT)