Report on Radiation and the Quantum-Theory, 1914 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report on Radiation and the Quantum-Theory, 1914<br><br>"La Theorie du Rayonnement et les Quanta." (GauthierVillars, Paris, 1912.) Reports presented to the first Solway Congress of Physics at Brussels (October, 1911), with the discussion thereon.<br><br>[Reports presented by Lorentz, Jeans, Warburg, Rubens, Planck, Knudsen, Perrin, Nernst, Kamerlingh-Onnes, Sommerfeld, Langevin and Einstein, nearly all dealing with the Quantum-Theory. Comments and discussion by the foregoing, and also by Poincare, Lord Rayleigh, Wien, Rutherford, Brillouin, Mme. Curie, Hasenohrl, De Broglie and Lindemann.]<br><br>"Vortrage ilber die Kinetische Theorie der Materie und der Elcktrizitat"; Mathematische Vorlesungen ander Universitat Gottingon. (Teubner, Leipzig, 1914.)<br><br>[Reports by Planck, Debye, Nernst, v. Smoluchowski, Sommerfeld, Lorentz and others, largely concerned with the developments of the Quantum-Theory.]<br><br>"Report of the British Association(1913) at Birmingham." Section A. - Discussion on Radiation; pp. 376-386.<br><br>[Discussion by Lorentz, Pringsheim, Love and Larmor. Opening by Jeans.]<br><br>Max Planck: "Acht Vorlesungen ber Theoretische Physik." (S. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1910.)<br><br>[The fifth and sixth lectures deal with Planck's form of the Quantum-Theory.]<br><br>Henri Poincare:" Dernieres pensees." (Flammarion, Paris, 1913.) [An essay, entitled "L'hypothese des Quanta," gives in a non-technical form Poincare's final judgment on the Quantum-Theory.]<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.