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"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."--John Gribbin, New Scientist "Every scientist should have this book."--Paul Davies, New ScientistThomas S. Kuhn is the author of 'Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912', published 1987 under ISBN 9780226458007 and ISBN 0226458008.
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