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Uses the light-quantum hypothesis to explain the production and transformation of light and derive the relation between photoelectron energy and incident frequency.
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Albert Einstein
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Einstein: light quanta and the photoelectric relation
Uses the light-quantum hypothesis to explain the production and transformation of light and derive the relation between photoelectron energy and incident frequency.
Scientific scope
This entry is the 1905 heuristic theory. It does not combine the original experimental discovery, subsequent precision measurements or relativity papers into one achievement.
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Albert Einstein
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