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The Wave - Particle Duality

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The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light

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Is light and more generally matter, constituted of waves, of particles, or of wavesparticles? The debate concerning the nature of light began in the seventeenth century-at the moment of the publication of two books which laid the foundations of Optics: The book of Chr. Huygens, Treatise of Light, and the Opticks of I. Newton.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina, Greece

    Eftichios Bitsakis

  2. Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece

    Eftichios Bitsakis

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, North York, Toronto, Canada

    Stanley Jeffers

  2. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    Sisir Roy

  3. Department of Physics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Jean-Pierre Vigier

  4. Department of Chemistry, York University, North York, Toronto, Canada

    Geoffrey Hunter

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Bitsakis, E. (1997). The Wave - Particle Duality. In: Jeffers, S., Roy, S., Vigier, JP., Hunter, G. (eds) The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5682-0_33

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