Quantum Hypothesis

Superseded · 1900

Status: Superseded
Year: 1900

Summary

Energy exchanged only in discrete packets, hf at a time. Planck introduced it as an act of desperation to fit the black-body curve and spent years trying to explain it away; Einstein took it literally instead.

Equations

Stefan–Boltzmann Law Planck–Einstein Relation Planck's Law Wien's Displacement Law Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation

Proponent

Max Planck Albert Einstein

Referenced by

equation

Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation Planck's Law Planck–Einstein Relation Stefan–Boltzmann Law Wien's Displacement Law

researcher

Albert Einstein Max Planck

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