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Who proposed wavicles?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

In 1900 Max Planck noted that the spectrum of black-body radiation could be easily explained if it was assumed that light came in quanta (his word) of energy, each equal to the frequency of light times a constant (since known as "Planck's Constant"). He did not propose that these quanta actually existed, only the mathematical fact that they could explain something that, until then, could not be explained.

Albert Einstein noted that this same assumption also readily explained the photo-electric effect; and proposed that these quanta were real physical quantities. In 1926, Gilbert Lewis gave these quanta the name "photons." In 1927 Arthur Eddington whimsically described them as "wavicles."

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