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Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), an atomist, proposed a particle theory of light.
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What physicist was the chief architect of the particle theory of light?
It was Max Planck who used the particle theory of light.
What discovery resulted from the photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein. It was experimental proof that light can also act as a particle. He received the Nobel prize for this discovery, although he was also famous for his work on relativity.
How does light traval?
it is particularly hard question to answer because there are many theories regarding how light in particularly travels, one theory says it's a wave and another says it's a particle. based on these two theories, there are question about the behaviour of light that can be answered but it is not 100% that which theory is correct, because light behaves as a wave and a particle. how does light travel in vacuum is misery, it has some form of magnetic radiation that it creates for itself that it can travel.
What is the particle theory of matter for water boiling?
what is theory of matter ?
What does the alleged discovery of the higgs boson particle mean when applied to string theory?
It doesn't mean much. The Higgs Boson is only necessary for the Standard Model to be correct; the Standard Model excludes gravity, and String Theory is a theory of quantum gravity. The two are separate from one another.
What physicist was the chief architect of the particle theory of light?
It was Max Planck who used the particle theory of light.
What is the difference between particle and wave theory of light?
Particle theory of light can explain Photoelectric Effect,Compton effect,Pair production.... wave theory of light can explain interference,refraction...
Is the emission of electromagnetic radiation by an excited atom a wave or particle theory?
wave theory of light
Is Compton effect support the wave theory of light or particle theory?
yes it supports the wave theory of light...
Which theory of light best explains the interference of light?
It is the wave theory of light that best explains interference. The particle theory has problems when applied to this observable phenomenon.
Which theory of light is the photon more consistent with the wave theory or the particle theory?
this is a much more complicated question than perhaps you realise. try looking up "wave particle duality" photons have the strange characteristic of haveing properties of both a wave and a particle.
What law explains dual nature of light?
The wave-particle duality theory. This explains why sometimes light appears to travel as a wave, and why sometimes it appears to travel as a particle.
What is the name for the particle theory?
Particle Theory is its name.
Explain the most modern theory of light?
the theory is very interesting but it is a2-f5+p-0=78p
Who discovered light can move?
Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton were both responsible for the knowledge we have today on the motion of light. Huygens proposed his wave theory for light's motion and Newton proposed the particle theory in the 17th century. It is accepted today that light moves in both wave form and particle form at once.
What two experiments involving light and matter could not be explained by the wave theory of light?
In the days before quantum mechanics there was discussion whether light was a particle or wave. The problem was that neither one could explain all phenomena completely. For example, the particle theory couldn't not account for interference patterns that can be made with light, but the wave theory could not account for the photo-electric effect. In this effect a photon (a light particle) deposits energy into a metal causing the metal to eject an electron. The puzzling thing was that increasing the intensity of the light did not increase the kinetic energy of the ejected electrons, only the amount of such ejected electrons. The photo-electric effect was finally tackled by Albert Einstein (for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1921), and light is now regarded as consisting of 'wave-packets' with photons have a unintuitive wave-particle duality.
What is de-Broglie theory?
The theory states that both matter and light exhibit wave and particle nature which leads tointerference effect i.e; when the wavelenght is <<<< the scale which we use it ,behaves as particle and when wavelenght >>>>the scale it behaves as wave.
