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The dilemma between wave and particle aspects of the various constituents of matter and radiation arose after Planck’s discovery of the quantum of action, and Einstein’s quite independent proposal of a sort of revival of the corpuscular theory of light, again including the concept of the quantum of action in the form of energy or light quanta
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Rosenfeld, L. (1973). The Wave-Particle Dilemma. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_10
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