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The development of quantum mechanics was preceded by that of the quantum theory of light. At the end of the last century it seemed that in the contest between the corpuscular and wave theories of the nature of light the wave theory had finally triumphed in the form due to Maxwell. The experiments of Hertz with electromagnetic waves, the proof by Lebedev of the existence of radiation pressure, and other facts revealed by the experimenter’s skill seemed to prove irrefutably the correctness of Maxwell’s theory.
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Blokhintsev, D.I. (1964). Foundations of Quantum Theory. In: Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9711-6_1
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