At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
Johannes StarkAbout author
- Author's profession: Physicist
- Born: April 15, 1874
- Died: June 21, 1957
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