100 Years Ago

摘要

Vorlesungen uberdie Theorie der Warmestrahlung. By Dr. Max Planck - The first edition of this book, which appeared in 1906, was reviewed in Nature ... The many and varied contributions to our knowledge of radiation phenomena that have been published in the ensuing years have made it necessary for Dr. Planck to rewrite and modify the book to a considerable extent... As before, the object of the book is to apply the statistical methods previously used in the kinetic theory of gases to the phenomena of radiation ... The treatment is largely based on the remarkable assumption which the author designates as the "quantumhypothesis." ... This is analogous to the electron theory, which assigns a definite magnitude to the electron or "elementary quantum" of electricity.