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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Einstein, Über die Entwickelung unserer Anschauungen über das Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung ( On the development of our views on the nature and constitution of radiation ) in Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. Vol 11 No. 20 pp. 482-500, October 30, 1909, appearing in the issue of pp (415)-548.) This is an extract from the journal, with a new spine cloth adhesive. This is Einstein s paper on the quantization of light and the introduction of the concept (if not Gilbert Lewis name for it) of the modern photon the naming would take place 17 years later. VG copy.[++] This paper was presented at the physics meeting in Salzburg which was Einstein s first physics major conference he attended as a newly-resigned patent office clerk, and a brand-new associate prof at the University of Zurich. Oh yes and he also meets Planck for the first time here. [++] [This paper] contains "the first well-conceived promulgation of the wave-particle duality of light [which] had implications as profound as Einstein's earlier theoretical breakthroughs. Walter Isaacson, Einstein, his Life and Universe , 2007, p.157). [++] 1909 E. completes two papers [in March and October, the later being offered here] each of which contains a conjecture on the theory of blackbody radiation. In modern terms, these two conjectures are complimentarity, and the correspondence principle. Abraham Pais, Subtle is the Lord , p 523. [++] "Wave-Particle Duality. For Einstein, however, the central problem continued to be the nature of radiation. In 1909, speaking in Salzburg at his first major scientific meeting, he argued that the future theory of light which would have to be constructed would be a kind of fusion of the wave and emission theories. Einstein s prediction was based on the results of his continued probings into the implications of Planck s distribution law for black-body radiation. One term was readily intelligible as due to interfering waves, the other as due to variations in the number of light quanta present in the subvolume under study. Neither a wave nor a particle theory could account for the presence of both terms. Einstein confirmed this result by a completely independent calculation of the Brownian motion that a mirror would have to undergo if it were suspended in an enclosure containing a gas and black-body radiation in thermodynamic equilibrium. Once again there were wave and particle contributions to the fluctuations in momentum of the suspended mirror. Einstein saw this wave-particle duality in radiation as concrete evidence for his conviction that physics needed a new, unified foundation. His view of the role of light quanta in this new fundamental theory had evolved since he put forward the heuristic suggestion of a corpuscular approach to radiation in 1905. Einstein now envisaged a field theory, based on appropriate partial differential equations, probably nonlinear, from which quanta would emerge as singular solutions, along the lines of the electric charges in electrostatics."--Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography online (citing the paper offered here but the later version found the same year in the Physikalische Zeitung. [++] This is the first synthesis showing the profound changes in the concept of light ushered in by the theory of relativity and of the important implications of this change on the development of physics." --Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick, and Robert Schulmann, An Einstein Encyclopedia, Princeton UP, 2016, p. 289.). [++] Einstein s report on the constitution of radiation at the physics meeting in Salzburg in 1909, where he appeared before a larger audience for the first time, can be considered as one of the landmarks in the development of theoretical physics (Wolfgang Pauli, Einstein s contribution to quantum theory, in Schilpp, Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist p. 154).