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James Hopwood Jeans
Report on radiation and the quantum-theory
The Electrician Printing & Publishing Co 1914
First Edition
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GENUINE FIRST EDITION. The Physical Society of London. The Electrician Printing & Publishing Co., London, 1914. Hardcover, 90 pages. Green cloth. Some shelf-wear and rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped, spine ends worn. Text is clean and bright, binding is tight. Overall very good copy.
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. He made important contributions to the development of quantum theory and to theoretical astrophysics, especially to the theory of stellar structure. Report on Radiation was the first complete account of all known aspects of quantum theory. Jeans discussed not only the law of radiation and the explanation of the origin of spectral lines, but also the photoelectric effect and the behavior of specific heats of solids at low temperatures. Finally he discussed what he considered to be the physical basis of quantum theory: the atomicity of matter, radiation and electricity. Jeans’ report rendered an invaluable service, as it introduced the British scientific public to the new quantum concepts which had been developed since Planck derived his radiation law in 1900.
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