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::: 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)
::: 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)
:::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)