‎Physique‎

‎"GAUSS, CARL FRIEDRICH UND WILHELM WEBER.‎

‎Resultate aus den Beobachtungen des Magnetischen Vereins im Jahre 1836. Mit 10 Steindrucktafeln.‎

‎Göttingen, Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1837. 8vo. Original blue blank boards. Uncut. The first leaves a bit brownspotted. (2),103 pp., 11 tables a. 10 lithographed plates (also showing the magnetic observatory, its equipment and instruments).‎

‎"GAY-LUSSAC, (JOSEPH). - THE ""GAY-LUSSAC LAW"" OF EXPANDING GASES ANNOUNCED - GERMAN VERSION.‎

‎Untersuchungen über die Ausdehnung der Gasarten und der Dämpfe durch die Wärme. (Vorgelesen im National-Institute am 11ten Pluv. J. 10" " 31sten Jan. 1801. Zusammengezogen aus den Annalen de Chimie t. 43, p. 137-175).‎

‎Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1803. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert"", Bd. 12. Pp. 257-291 a. 1 folded engraved plate showing the experimental apparatus used.‎

‎"GELL-MANN, MURRAY.‎

‎Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons. - [NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1969]‎

‎Lancaster, PA and New York, American Institute of Physics, 1962. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In ""The Physical Review"", vol. 125, second series, Number 3, February 1, 1962. With previous owner's small stamp (Danish physicist C. Møller) to front wrapper. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Pp. 1067-1084.‎

‎First publication of Gell-Mann's Nobel prize winning paper in which he classified the hadrons according to a system he called the 'Eightfold Way', and which ultimately led to the quark model of hadron composition.""Professor Gell-Mann. You have given fundamental contributions to our knowledge of mesons and baryons and their interactions. You have developed new algebraic methods which have led to a far-reaching classification of these particles according to their symmetry properties. The methods introduced by you are among the most powerful tools for further research in particle physics..."" (Nobel Prize Presentation Speech).""The second stage on the way to quarks was what Gell-Mann called the 'eightfold way'. Symmetries are an important feature of physics. They are properties observed when transformation are applied to physical systems. The mathematical theory of transformations is called group theory. In earlier episodes we already discussed features of angular momentum, spin, and isospin, which are described by a special unitary group called SU(2), without mentioning that term. In 1961, Gell-Mann combined isospin and strangeness to form a quantity which he called unitary spin and studied its properties under the group SU(3) of transformation. [Presented in the present paper]"" (The Harvest of A Century).‎

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‎"GIESEL, F. (FRIEDRICH OSKAR). - THE CONCENTRATION OF RADIUM AND POLONIUM.‎

‎Einiges über die Verhalten des radioactiven Baryts und über Polonium. (+) Ueber die Ablenkbarkeit der Becquerelstrahlen im magnetischen Felde. (2 Papers).‎

‎Leipzig, J.H. Barth, 1899. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. Light wear to spine ends. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 69. VIII,875 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). Small stamp on title and verso of. Internally clean and fine. Giesel's papers: pp. 91-94 and pp. 834-836.‎

‎First edition of an early and importent paper in the study of radioactivity, explaining how to prepare radium compounds, and thus being the first to place preparations of pure radium bromide on the market.The second paper offered, contains the first proof that Becquerel rays could be deflected by a magnet.Giesel ""A past master at the art of extracting and preparing pure substances in phytochemistry, after the Curies’ 1898 discovery of polonium, he applied his craft to radiochemistry. By 1900 he had developed an improved method of fractional crystallization, producing a greater concentration of radium salts in a shorter time, by using bromide instead of chloride. One direct result of his highly influential efforts, by which pure radium bromide became commercially available for research, was the 1903 verification by William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy of the production of helium from radium. Giesel was the first to observe the decomposition of water by radium salts.""(DSB).When his close friends and nearby colleagues Julius Elster and Hans Geitel obtained inconclusive results regarding magnetic influence upon Becquerel rays, Giesel provided a key to these rays’ non-X-ray character by his decisive proof of their magnetic deflectability in October 1899.‎

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‎"GIAEVER, IVAR.‎

‎Energy Gap in Superconductors Measured by Electron Tunneling. - [NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1973]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1960. Lex8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""Physical Review Letters"", Volume 5, No. 10, November 15, 1960. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 464-66. [Entire issue: 459-494].‎

‎First printing of Giaever's influential paper (the second paper publlished on the subject the same year) in which he demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity that had been developed in 1957 by Bardeen. Giaever was awarded the nobel prize in physics in 1973 for his ""discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids"".The present paper is regarded a contemporary classic within engineering and applied sciences.‎

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‎"GILLET, V. (+) A. M. GREEN (+) E. A. SANDERSON.‎

‎Particle-hole Description of Lead 208.‎

‎[No place], 1964. 4to. Without wrappers [as issue]. Offprint from ""Physics Letters"", Volume 11, number 1, 1964. Very fine and clean. Pp. 44-46.‎

‎Offprint of Gillet, Green and Sanderson's preliminary paper on a calculation on the excited states of lead 208.‎

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‎"GIAEVER, IVAR.‎

‎Energy Gap in Superconductors Measured by Electron Tunneling - [PROOF OF ENERGY GAP IN SUPERCONDUCTORS - NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 1973]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1960. Lex8vo. Volume 5, No. 4, August 15, 1960 of ""Physical Review Letters"", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 147-8. [Entire issue: 133-188].‎

‎"GIESEL, F. (FRIEDRICH OSKAR). - THE CONCENTRATION OF RADIUM AND POLONIUM.‎

‎Einiges über die Verhalten des radioactiven Baryts und über Polonium. (+) Ueber die Ablenkbarkeit der Becquerelstrahlen im magnetischen Felde. (2 Papers).‎

‎Leipzig, J.H. Barth, 1899. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Slightly rubbed. Light wear to spine ends. In ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 69. VIII,875 pp. and 8 plates. (Entire volume offered). Small stamp on title and verso of. Internally clean and fine. Giesel's papers: pp. 91-94 and pp. 834-836.‎

‎"GLAUBER, ROY J.‎

‎The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence. - [DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM OPTICS]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1963. Lex8vo. Volume 130, 15 June, No. 6, of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered in the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper. Wear to spine and extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 2529-38. [Entire issue: Pp. 2135-2622].‎

‎First publication of this seminal paper in which the first thorough development of the quantum theory of optical coherence was presented. The present paper led directly to Glauber being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2005 ""for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"". His theories are today widely used in the field of quantum optics.""After the discovery of the maser and the laser in the sixties new ideas for quantum effects of the radiation field were in the air. However, there was no theory for their observation. It was only in 1963 that Roy [Glauber] had developed the quantum theory of optical coherence [in the present paper]. Here the concept of coherence state plays a central role. Coherent states had been proposed for the first time by Erwin Schrödinger in order to show that a wavepacket needs not always to be bound to spread. The coherent state became the crucial tool for Roy's theory of optical coherence. In particular, he could show that for coherent fields all correlation functions factorize."" (Scully. Quantum theory of optical coherence. 2009. P. xv.).Glauber's work was essential for understanding and the further development of the laser.‎

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‎"GLAZEBROOK, R.T. - CONFIRMING FRESNEL'S WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT.‎

‎An Experimental Determination of the Values of the Velocities of Normal Propagation of Plane Waves in different directions in a Biaxial Crystal, and a Comparison of the Results with Theory. 2 parts.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1879 - Vol. 170 - Part I. Pp. 287-377a.26 textillustrations.‎

‎"GODDARD, ROBERT H.‎

‎Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development (with 11 plates). - [THE WORLD'S FIRST LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET]‎

‎Washington, The Smithsonian Institution, 1936. 8vo. In recent red full cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Published as part of ""Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 95, Number 3, Publication 3381"". A fine and clean copy. (2), 10 pp. + 11 photographic plates.‎

‎First edition of Goddard's paper on liquid-fueled rocket development. Goddard is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket and is often referred to as the man who ushered in the Space Age (Pendray, Rocket Development). By temperament and training Goddard was not a team worker, yet he laid the foundation from which team workers could launch men to the moon"" (DSB). Goddard was secretive about his research and only published two papers"" ""A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"" (1919) and the present. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket on 16 March 1926 near Auburn, Mass. The ten-foot rocket, nicknamed ""Nell"" reached an altitude of 41 feet, traveled a distance of 184 feet and landed 2.5 seconds after lift-off in a cabbage patch. ""Although his list of firsts in rocketry was distuguished, Goddard was eventually surpassed by teams of rocket research and development experts elsewhere, particularly in Germany."" (DSB).""Like the Russian hero Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the German pioneer Hermann Oberth, Goddard worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently [...] Having explored the mathematical practicality of rocketry since 1906 and the experimental workability of reaction engines in laboratory vacuum tests since 1912, Goddard began to accumulate ideas for probing beyond the Earth's stratosphere. His first two patents in 1914, for a liquid-fuel gun rocket and a multistage step rocket, let to some modest recognition and financial support from the Smithsonian Institution [...] With an eye toward patentability of demonstrated systems and with the aid of no more than a handful of technicians, Goddard achieved a series of workable liquid-fuel flights starting in 1926. Through the patronage of Charles A. Lindbergh, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, and the Carnegie and Smithsonian institutions, the Goddards and their small staff were able to move near Roswell, New Mexico. There, during most of the 1930s, Goddard demonstrated, despite many failures in his systematic static and flight tests, progressively more sophisticated experimental boosters and payloads, reaching speeds of 700 miles per hour and altitudes above 8000 feet in several test flights"" (DSB).‎

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‎"GODDARD, ROBERT H.‎

‎Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development (with 11 plates). - [THE WORLD'S FIRST LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET]‎

‎Washington, The Smithsonian Institution, 1936. 8vo. In recent red full cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Published as part of ""Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 95, Number 3, Publication 3381"". A fine and clean copy. (2), 10 pp. + 11 photographic plates.‎

‎"GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. - IONIZATION OF GASES - DISCOVERING STRIAE.‎

‎On the Electro-Chemical Polarity of Gases. Received January 7, - Read April 1, 1852.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 87-101 and 1 plate. The plate with a faint dampstain.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Grove describes his discovery of striae, the dark bands that occur in electrical breakdown. ""Grove was the first to study what became known as ""sputtering"" although others had observed the effect while studying glow discharges. Grove used a tip of wire as the coating source and sputtered a deposit onto a highly polished silver surface held close to the wire at a pressure of about 0.5 Torr. He noted a coating on the silver surface when it was made the anode and the wire the cathode of an electrical circuit.(History of PVD Coatings).Schiers & Schiers ""Early Television"" No. 18.‎

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‎"GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. - THE FIRST FUELL CELL DESCRIBED BY THE ""FATHER OF THE FUELL CELL""‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition and the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat. Received September 3, - Read November 19, 1846. (+) Supplementary Paper on certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition, and t...‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 1-16 a. pp. 17-21 and 1 lithographed plate‎

‎First appearance of an importent paper in which Grove describes and depicts his invention - from 1839 - of the first FUEL CELL, which he named ""The Gas Voltaic Battery"", and where he applied his anticipation of the principle of ""Conservation of Energy"" to the decomposition of water. and to the ignition of the released gases.In 1846, Grove published ""On The Correlation of Physical Forces"" in which he anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy that was more famously put forward in Hermann von Helmholtz' Über die Erhaltung der Kraft (On the Conservation of Force) published the following year.His 1846 Bakerian lecture relied heavily on his theory.(The paper offered).During the early 1960s, General Electric produced the fuel-cell-based electrical power system for NASA's Gemini and Apollo space capsules. General Electric used the principles found in the ""Bacon Cell"" as the basis of its design. Today, the Space Shuttle's electricity is provided by fuel cells, and the same fuel cells provide drinking water for the crew.NASA decided that using nuclear reactors was too high a risk, and using batteries or solar power was too bulky to use in space vehicles. NASA has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel-cell technology, bringing the technology to a level now viable for the private sector‎

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‎"GRAHAM, THOMAS. - GRAHAM'S LAW OF EFFUSION.‎

‎On the Motion of Gases. Received June 18, - Read June 18, 1846. (+) On the Motion of Gases. Part II. Received JJune 21, - Read June 21, 1849.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1846 a. 1849). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1846 . Pp. 573-631 a. 3 engraved plates + 1849. Pp. 349-391. Clean and fine.‎

‎"GROSS, B.‎

‎Zur Absorption der Ultrastrahlung.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1933. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 83, 1933. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper. Fine and clean. Pp. 214-221.. [Entire volume: VIII, 845 pp.].‎

‎"GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. - THE FIRST FUELL CELL DESCRIBED BY THE ""FATHER OF THE FUELL CELL""‎

‎The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition and the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat. Received September 3, - Read November 19, 1846. (+) Supplementary Paper on certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition, and t...‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 1-16 a. pp. 17-21 and 1 lithographed plate‎

‎"GULLSTRAND, ALLVAR.‎

‎Das Optische Abbildungssystem. Mit 9 Textfiguren.‎

‎Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1915. Large 4to. Uncut with orig. prited wrappers. (2),139 pp. Offprint from ""Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien Handlingar."", Bd. 55. No 1.‎

‎"GÜTTINGER, PAUL.‎

‎Das Verhalten von Atomen im magnetischen Drehfeld. - [FIRST DERIVATION OF THE HELLMANN-FEYNMAN FORMULAS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1932. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 73, 1932. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with light wear. Pp. 169-84. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 846 pp.].‎

‎First appearance of Paul Güttinger's important paper which constitute the first derivation of the Hellmann-Feynman formulas.In quantum mechanics, the Hellmann-Feynman theorem relates the derivative of the total energy with respect to a parameter, to the expectation value of the derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to that same parameter. According to the theorem, once the spatial distribution of the electrons has been determined by solving the Schrödinger equation, all the forces in the system can be calculated using classical electrostatics.‎

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‎"GÜTTINGER, PAUL.‎

‎Das Verhalten von Atomen im magnetischen Drehfeld. - [FIRST DERIVATION OF THE HELLMANN-FEYNMAN FORMULAS]‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1932. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 73, 1932. Entire issue offered. Stamp to front free end-paper and titlepage, Extremities with light wear. Pp. 169-84. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 846 pp.].‎

‎"HALL, ROBERT N. & G. E. FENNER & J. D. KINGSLEY & T. J. SOLTYS & R. O. CARLSON‎

‎Coherent Light Emission From GaAs Junctions. - [THE INVENTION OF THE LASER DIODE]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1962. Lex8vo. Volume 9, No. 9, November 1, 1962 of ""Physical Review Letters"", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 366-368. [Entire issue: 361-414].‎

‎First edition of this groundbreaking paper in which the first demonstration of a coherent light emission from a semiconductor diode or laser diode is presented. The semiconductor laser is built upon Gallium arsenide (GaAs) which is a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic. It is a III/V semiconductor, and is used in a wide variety of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells, and optical windows.Later advances and improvements in materials has made the injection laser a fundamental and essential device in many important systems such as DVD- and CD-players.‎

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‎"HARTMANN, WERNER.‎

‎Elektrische Untersuchungen an oxydischen Halbleitern.‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1936. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Zeitschrift für Physik"", Bd. 102, 1936. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 709-733. [Entire volume: VIII, 793 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Hartmann's Ph.D. thesis on the electrical properties of oxide semiconductors.‎

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‎"HAWKING, S. W.‎

‎Occurrence of Singularities in Open Universes. - [STEPHEN HAWKING'S FIRST PUBLISHED PAPER]‎

‎(New York), American physical Society, 1965. Lex8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""Physical Review Letters"", Volume 15, No. 17, November 15, 1965. Small white paperlabel pasted on to top to back wrapper. Small blue line in ballpoint pen to back wrapper, not affecting text. A nice and clean copy externally as well as internally. P. 689. [Entire issue: Pp. 687-720].‎

‎Rare first appearance of Hawking's first published paper, published a year before his Ph.D. was approved. It signposted the beginning of the area of research in black holes and singularities in general. Shortly after the present paper was published, Hawking followed up with three other seminal papers, in which he applied the Penrose-singularity (that a gravitationally collapsing star will inevitably end in a space-time singularity) to the whole universe. This resulted in his famous conclusion that: ""Yes, a universe governed by the classical (i.e., nonquantum) general theory of relativity must necessarily have started in a space-time singularity"" (Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy).When Hawking began his graduate studies, there was much debate in the physics community about the prevailing theories of the creation of the universe: the Big Bang and Steady State theories. Inspired by Roger Penrose's theorem of a spacetime singularity in the centre of black holes, Hawking applied the same thinking to the entire universe and during 1965, he wrote his thesis and the present paper on this topic. ""Hawking [in the present paper] realized that closed trapped surfaces, in its past version, will be present in any expanding Universe close to be spatially homogeneous and isotropic. This started a series of papers by him, Ellis, Geroch and others on the question of the inevitability of an initial singularity in our past if GR is assumed to hold and some reasonable conditions are met."" (Senovilla, The 1965 Penrose singularity theorem)‎

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‎"HAMILTON, WILLIAM ROWAN‎

‎Second Essay on a general Method in Dynamics. Received October 29, 1834, - Read January 15, 1835. (2 Memoirs).‎

‎London, Richard Taylor, 1834-35. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1835 - Part I. Titlepages to the volume present. (2),95-144. Both papers clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this groundbreaking paper in which Hamilton develops the whole of theoretical dynamics by the aid of one function only, his 'Characteristic' or 'Principal' Function. He applies his method to a case of planetary motion, using a system of canonical elements"" (Introduction, The Mathematical Paper of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, xiii). Hamilton then argues that the ""tool of the characteristic function could also be applied to reformulate the fundamental laws of dynamics"" thus the actual motion of mass point in a field of forces, e.g., is found to be governed by equations that are the analogues of those determining the propagation of the rays of light. Hamilton's optical-mechanical analogy, not only provided a new and more powerful formulation of classical mechanics but also, came to form the foundation of the Schrödinger scheme of quantum mechanics, e.g., wave mechanics. "" (Mehra The Historical Development of Quantum Theory)‎

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‎"HALLWACHS, WILHELM. - THE ""HALLWACHS EFFECT""‎

‎Ueber den Einfluss des Lichtes auf electrostatisch geladene Körper.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1888. Without wrappers as issued in ""Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann."", Neue Folge Bd. 33, 2. Heft (= No 2). Titlepage to vol. 33. Smal stamps to verso of title and titlepage. Pp. 241-416 a. 1 plate (entire issue offered ""Heft"" 2). Hallwach's paper: pp. 301-312. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this pioneer paper in the history of the PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT, as Hallwachs here for the first time showed that metals lose their negative charges under the action of ultraviolet radiation and becomes positive charged. The earliest speculations of the nature of the effect predates the discovery of the electron in 1897 by J.J. Thomson.""This process, which is called the photoelectric effect or Hallwachs effect, forms the basis for the physics of the photoelectric cell and was theoretically interpreted by Einstein in 1905 in Einstein's work on light quanta.""(DSB VI, p.74).""On the basis of his heuristic principle, Einstein proposed the following 'simplest picture' for the photoeffect. A light-quantum gives all its energy to a single electron, and the energy transfer by one light-quantum is independent of the presence of other light-quanta....and he gave several other applications of his heuristic principle...""(Pais in ""Subtle is the Lord"" pp. 380-81).Magie ""A Source Book in Physics"", pp. 578 ff.‎

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