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:::: 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)

:::: 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)

::::: And Newton published 200 years earlier about light existing from ''corpuscles''. But neither Planck nor Newton published an the ''photoelectric effect'', using light-quanta. You may not like it, but Planck, Born, the Nobel committee, gave Einstein credit for his explanation - Lenard, of course, did not, not so much because of a priority dispute but as he didn't accept the ''jüdische Physik'' ... --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 18:32, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

::::: And Newton published 200 years earlier about light existing from ''corpuscles''. But neither Planck nor Newton published on the ''photoelectric effect'', using light-quanta. You may not like it, but Planck, Born, the Nobel committee, gave Einstein credit for his explanation - Lenard, of course, did not, not so much because of a priority dispute but as he didn't accept the ''jüdische Physik'' ... --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 18:32, 26 October 2008 (EDT)

 

::::: And here is a nice - albeit secondary - [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/183228/electromagnetic-radiation quote] from the Encyclopaedia Britannica: ''These oscillators of frequency ν are incapable of absorbing or emitting electromagnetic radiation except in energy chunks of size hν. To explain quantized absorption and emission of radiation, it seemed sufficient to quantize only the energy levels of mechanical systems. Planck did not mean to say that electromagnetic radiation itself is quantized, or as Einstein later put it, “The sale of beer in pint bottles does not imply that beer exists only in indivisible pint portions.” The idea that electromagnetic radiation itself is quantized was proposed by Einstein in 1905, as described in the subsequent section.'' As usual, they express the thoughts so much clearer then I can do it... --[[User:BRichtigen|BRichtigen]] 18:50, 26 October 2008 (EDT)