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John Clauser is an experimental and theoretical physicist, best known for his contributions to the experimental and theoretical foundations of quantum mechanics. He is now retired and lives in Walnut Creek, CA.
Michael Nauenberg is a Research Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary research interests have been in particle physics, condensed matter physics, astrophysics, and nonlinear dynamics. He also has a long-standing interest in the history of physics and mathematics.
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Martin J. Klein, “Max Planck and the Beginnings of the Quantum Theory,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1 (1962), 459–79.
Further details can be found in the article by Clayton Gerhard in this journal, “Planck, the Quantum, and the Historians,” Physics in Perspective 4 (2002), 170–215, and in Michael Nauenberg, “Max Planck and the Birth of the Quantum Hypothesis,” American Journal of Physics 84 (2016), 709–19.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 18, 395–403 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-016-0194-z
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