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The dilemma between wave and particle aspects of the various constituents of matter and radiation arose after Planck’s discovery of the quantum of action, and Einstein’s quite independent proposal of a sort of revival of the corpuscular theory of light, again including the concept of the quantum of action in the form of energy or light quanta.
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L. Rosenfeld., Max Planck Festschrift (Berlin 1959), p. 203 and Osiris 2 (1936), 149. [This volume, pp. 235 and 193].
For the subject of the lecture, see also L. Rosenfeld, Archive for Hist, of Exact Sc. 7 (1971), 69. [This volume, p 266].
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Cohen, R.S., Stachel, J.J. (1979). The Wave-Particle Dilemma [1973b]. In: Cohen, R.S., Stachel, J.J. (eds) Selected Papers of Léon Rosenfeld. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9349-5_49
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