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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Brian Whatcott wrote:
The date of the arbitrary fudge factor
identified by Planck which reconciles the Rayleigh-Jeans law
to the experimental black-body curve was 1900.
It's now initialized with a letter that looks much like an 'h'.
Hope this straightens out the dateline.
Planck's remained a lonely voice until a patent clerk illuminated
a clean copper sheet with light of various intensities and
frequencies and used the same fudge factor to fit the
response curve. This did snag a Nobel. What year was that?
Can't recall.
Not exactly (see Richtmeyer & Kinnard,Ch. III). Herts reported
the effect in 1887. The patent clerk explained it in, of course, 1905.
The explanation was not generally accepted; I've seen a paper written in
(as I remember) 1912 that claimed that the electron energy was
proportional to the intensity of the radiation - meaning that the Einstein
relation was awful hard to measure.