Photons. The history and mental models of light quanta

DOI10.1080/00033790.2019.1644667MaRDI QIDQ6073777zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors John L. Heilbron

Publication date 12 October 2023

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2019.1644667

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) Physics (00A79) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantum optics (81V80)

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