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I show that Robert Andrews Millikan, in common with almost all physicists at the time, rejected Einstein’s light-quantum hypothesis as an interpretation of his photoelectric-effect experiments of 1915.
I sketch Albert Einstein’s revolutionary conception of light quanta in 1905 and his in-troduction of the wave-particle duality into physics in 1909 and then o er reasons why physicists generally had rejected his light-quantum hypothesis by around 1913. These physicists included Robert A. Millikan, who con rmed Einstein’s equation of the photo-
Mar 8, 2017 · Abstract. We present a translation of Albert Einstein’s Rio de Janeiro manuscript on light quanta. In it, Einstein evaluates the Bohr-Kramers-Slater refutation of light quanta, which was concurrently the subject of intense empirical scrutiny on two continents.
May 21, 2005 · I show that Robert Andrews Millikan, in common with almost all physicists at the time, rejected Einstein’s light-quantum hypothesis as an interpretation of his photoelectric-effect experiments of 1915.
since Newton's time, but it was Einstein's concern with this apparently simple fact that drove him on to the general theory of relativity. This same trait emerges clearly in the first sentence of his 1905 paper on light quanta. "There is a profound formal difference," he began, "between the theoretical ideas that physicists have formed concerning
It took until about 1914–16 to secure an adequate verifi cation of Einstein’s law for the energies of the photoelectrons. When Millikan succeeded in doing that, it seemed clear that Einstein was right, and that light does indeed consist of quantized energy packets. It was thus Einstein who fathered the light quan-
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Aug 17, 2018 · However, Millikan categorically rejected Einstein’s light-quantum hypothesis as an interpretation of his experiments—despite his own words to the contrary in his later, self-aggrandizing autobiography.
