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The First Paper on Experimental Observation of Interference Fringes with Feeble Light (Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor)

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On the editor’s selection, this chapter reproduces a brief biography of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975) in Sect. 11.1, and a text of Taylor’s paper of the year 1909 “Interference fringes with feeble light ” (Sect. 11.2), the first experimental observation of interference fringes with feeble light.

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Lukishova, S.G. (2019). The First Paper on Experimental Observation of Interference Fringes with Feeble Light (Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor). In: Boyd, R., Lukishova, S., Zadkov, V. (eds) Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98402-5_11

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