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De BROGLIE, Louis. A Tentative Theory of Light Quanta in the Philosophical Magazine (the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science), 1924, volume 47 pp. 446 458, 1924), in the volume of vii,(i),1168pp, five plates, complete. Bound with: BOHR, Niels; Harald Kramers and John C. Slater. "A Quantum Theory of Radiation" pp. 785-802 1924). [++] Offered here is the full volume of January-June 1924, bound in library buckram, with reinforced hinges. Provenance: Technical Library at the great Aberdeen Proving Grounds, with their bookplate and several interior stamps. Nominal library stamps and marks. There are three tears repaired years ago with now-yellowed cellophane adhesive tape. GOOD/VG copy. [++] First edition in English of de Broglie's monumental contribution in the founding of quantum theory. This paper, published in the February 1924 issue of the PM, is the translation of the three papers he published in the "Comptes Rendus." earlier in 1923 but precedes his important (doctoral dissertation) being the result of those earlier 1923 papers (so this is a slightly knotty,bibliographically speaking). [++] "After a series of three groundbreaking communications to the Paris Academy in 1923, where he outlined the basics of a wave theory of matter, he exposed his ideas in his PhD thesis "Recherches sur la théorie des quanta". These works suggested that the idea of the dual nature of light (as both a localized particle and a wave extended in space) put forth by Albert Einstein in 1905 should be applied to matter as well. With the successful extension of de Broglie s results by Schrödinger, and then especially with the discovery of electron diffraction in crystals by Clinton Joseph Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer at Bell Labs in the United States in 1927, and by George Paget Thomson at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1928, which demonstrated experimentally that material particles exhibited wavelike properties, de Broglie s ideas were spectacularly vindicated. In 1929 the Swedish Academy of Sciences conferred on him the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons. --Complete DSB online [++] "In this work de Broglie brings a synthesis of the ideas treated in three other articles published in French and proposes the elaboration of a dualistic theory for light as an explanation for many phenomena that could not be correctly explained by the wave and corpuscular theories if isolated. In addition to discussing results already known to the scientific community of his time, de Broglie's works present totally original ideas and had already contained concepts that are crucial for explaining many phenomena known today (e.g. laser)."--A. Barros, "De Broglie's "A tentative theory of light quanta", Revista Sustinere, 2018. [++] On the Bohr/Kramers/Slater paper: "The most striking feature of this remarkable paper, "The Quantum Theory of Radiation," was the renunciation of the classical form of causality in favor of a purely statistical description. Even the distribution of energy and momentum between the radiation field and the "virtual oscillators" constituting the atomic systems was assumed to be statistical, the conservation laws being fulfilled only on the average."--Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography (online) This effort is also known as the "BKS Theory": The Bohr Kramers Slater theory (BKS theory) was perhaps the final attempt at understanding the interaction of matter and electromagnetic radiation on the basis of the so-called old quantum theory, in which quantum phenomena are treated by imposing quantum restrictions on classically describable behaviour. It was advanced in 1924, and sticks to a classical wave description of the electromagnetic field. It was perhaps more a research program than a full physical theory, the ideas that are developed not being worked out in a quantitative way."--Wikipedia. Seller Inventory # ABE-1618499625058
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