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

Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912


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Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press




Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution. Thomas Kuhn also points to a 1906 paper by Einstein as “the birth of the quantum theory.” See Thomas S. Kuhn had attacked my Whiggish use of the term “displacement current. In 1894 Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation. Kuhn, the philosophy and history of science better known for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD33-2/TAD33-2-fnl-pg8-24-pdf.pdf. Thomas Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity: 1894-1912 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978). 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). Kuhn had taken a leave of absence from Princeton to write the book “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912.” We began arguing. A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. Missouri Western State University. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity:1894-1912 is a book by Thomas S.