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Talk:Photoelectric effect (view source)
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, 22:14, October 26, 2008→Timeline: Maybe Einstein deserved being elected to that group
:::Here is Planck's [http://planck.bbaw.de/planckiana.php?dokument=120 Wahlvorschlag] for Einstein from June 12th, 1913, i.e., his proposal to elect Albert Einstein into the ''Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften'' - in this time one of the leading bodies of science. It's full of praise for Einstein, especially regarding the ''Theory of Relativity'', and you'll find the lines I quoted above: ''"Daß er in seinen Spekulationen gelegentlich auch einmal über das Ziel hinausgeschossen haben mag, wie z.B. in seiner Hypothese der Lichtquanten, wird man ihm nicht allzu sehr anrechnen dürfen. Denn ohne einmal ein Risiko zu wagen, läßt sich auch in der exaktesten Wissenschaft keine wirkliche Neuerung einführen."'' ''(He may have overshot the mark with his speculations sometimes, as regarding his hypothesis of the light quanta, but one can't hold this against him. Because without taking a risk, nothing really new can be introduced into the most exact of sciences)''--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 15:41, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
:::Here is Planck's [http://planck.bbaw.de/planckiana.php?dokument=120 Wahlvorschlag] for Einstein from June 12th, 1913, i.e., his proposal to elect Albert Einstein into the ''Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften'' - in this time one of the leading bodies of science. It's full of praise for Einstein, especially regarding the ''Theory of Relativity'', and you'll find the lines I quoted above: ''"Daß er in seinen Spekulationen gelegentlich auch einmal über das Ziel hinausgeschossen haben mag, wie z.B. in seiner Hypothese der Lichtquanten, wird man ihm nicht allzu sehr anrechnen dürfen. Denn ohne einmal ein Risiko zu wagen, läßt sich auch in der exaktesten Wissenschaft keine wirkliche Neuerung einführen."'' ''(He may have overshot the mark with his speculations sometimes, as regarding his hypothesis of the light quanta, but one can't hold this against him. Because without taking a risk, nothing really new can be introduced into the most exact of sciences)''--[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 15:41, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
:::: So Planck praised Einstein. Maybe Einstein deserved being elected to that group. I am not disputing that. Maybe Einstein said something about light quanta that Planck did not fully agree with. Planck does not say who deserves credit for quantizing light. Even if he did, the more significant fact is that Planck published five years earlier. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 18:14, 26 October 2008 (EDT)