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Photons, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta
Author: Hentschel Klaus
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Preface and acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Planck’s and Einstein’s pathways to quantization
3. Twelve semantic layers ((OR: layers of meaning)) of light quanta or photons
4. Mental models of the pioneers
5. Early reception of the concept of light quanta or photons
6. The use of the concept of photons in textbooks and in scientific education
7. Light quanta interpreted as `conceptual blending'
8. Fundamental experiments with photons since 1945
9. Which semantic layers should today’s concept of photons include?
10. Conclusion and abstract
Bibliography
Some Pertinent websites
Klaus Hentschel studied physics, philosophy and history of science at the University of Hamburg, with a diploma in high-energy physics, a master in philosophy of science and a 1989 Ph.D. thesis on the misinterpretations of Einstein’s theory of relativity by contemporaries. He was assistant professor at the University of Göttingen, fellow of the Dibner Institute at MIT, Ernst Cassirer guest professor in Hamburg, and DFG-researcher in Berne. Since 2006 he has been full professor and director of the section for history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart. His habilitation thesis deals with the interplay of precision experimentation, instrument making, and theory formation in astrophysics which led to the discovery of gravitational redshift in the solar spectrum. He also published books on the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, on Gauss’s instrument maker, on the mapping of spectra, and on visual cultures in science and technology. He was contributing editor and consultant to the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, and he is the editor of nearly 20 books on research technologies, on the mentality of physicists, on Kayser, Kirchhoff and Planck, on materials science, and co-editor of the Compendium of Quantum Physics. Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy (Springer 2009).For his historiographic work Hentschel was awarded five international prizes. He is a member of the German National Academy of Scientists Leopoldina and of the Académie International d’Histoire des Sciences.
About the translator: Ann M. Hentschel earned her Bachelor of Arts in German and French at Tufts University in Massachusetts 1984 and was editorial assistant for the Einstein Papers Project at Boston University 1987-1991. She currently works as a freelance translator in the history of science in Stuttgart. Her publications include multiple volumes of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton Univ. Press, since 1998); The German Physical Society in
Features the fascinating concept of light quanta or photons with a long and detailed history from Newton to today
Provides a complex intermingling of various mental models including particle and wave
Is of equal interest to physicists working with photons in their daily research, historians of science and to philosophers wanting to get to grips with the concept of photons