Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 - Paperback

by Thomas S. Kuhn (Author)

"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurately) by one of its original reviewers as a scientific detective story."-John Gribbin, New Scientist

Author Biography

Thomas S. Kuhn is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Essential Tension, both published by the University of Chicago Press, and The Copernican Revolution.