Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 by Thomas S. Kuhn

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 Thomas S. Kuhn ebook
ISBN: 0226458008, 9780226458007
Format: pdf
Page: 399
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

^ Heilbron, 2000, page 8; ^ Claes Johnson. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity:1894-1912 is a book by Thomas S. For a perfect emitter (a so-called black body, which emits and absorbs at all wavelengths) it should have been possible to use thermodynamics to give a theoretical expression for black-body radiation. Kuhn, the philosophy and history of science better known for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change 169. Black-Body Theory And The Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; by Thomas S. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution. Kuhn, Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity 1894-1912, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978. Thus Wilhelm Wien in 1896 derived a law that applied Thomas Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity: 1894–1912 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978). Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Black-body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Various 'radiation laws' were derived. A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. Kuhn gives a striking example of this "paradigm shift" in his book Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 (1987, University of Chicago Press).