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Einstein’s annus mirabilis of 1905 saw the publication of his investigations into the theory of Brownian motion, his theory of special relativity, and, most revolutionary of all, his paper on light quanta , in which he extended Planck’s quantization of material oscillators to electromagnetic radiation, thereby affordi.
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He had first been proposed in 1946.
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Since, at the time, Fröhlich was convalescing after surgery, his wife accepted the Medal on his behalf at a General Conference of the European Physical Society, in Wiesbaden, 3–6 October, 1972, and read the paper [F151] he had written whilst in hospital.
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A list of unpublished transcripts of some of his invited lectures at various institutions is given in the Complete Bibliography of H. Fröhlich at the end of this book, wherein reference is made also to those lectures that have been published.
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Heitler (1973).
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Hyland, G.J., Rowlands, P., Herbert Fröhlich, F.R.S. (eds.): University of Liverpool (2006), 2nd edn. (2008)
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Hyland, G.J. (2015). Prologue. In: Herbert Fröhlich. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14851-9_1
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