Gutenberg Open Science: Rudolf Ladenburg and the first quantum interpretation of optical dispersion

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dc.contributor.author	Jordi Taltavull, Marta	-
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-17T10:06:31Z	-
dc.date.available	2021-05-17T10:06:31Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/5782	-
dc.description.abstract	In 1921, the experimental physicist Rudolf Ladenburg put forward the first quantum interpretation of optical dispersion. Theoretical physicists had tried to explain dispersion from the point of view of quantum theory ever since 1913, when Niels Bohr proposed his quantum model of atom. Yet, their theories proved unsuccessful. It was Ladenburg who gave a breakthrough step toward our quantum understanding of dispersion. In order to understand Ladenburg’s step, I analyze Ladenburg’s experimental work on dispersion prior to 1913, the reasons why the first theories of dispersion after 1913 were not satisfactory, and Ladenburg’s 1921 proposal. I argue that Ladenburg’s early experimental work on dispersion is indispensable to understand his 1921 paper. The specific kind of experiments he performed before 1913, the related interpretative problems, and the way he tried to solve them, led him reapproach the dispersion problem in 1921 in a way that was completely different from the way theoretical physicists had done it before.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	510 Mathematik	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	510 Mathematics	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	530 Physik	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	530 Physics	en_GB
dc.title	Rudolf Ladenburg and the first quantum interpretation of optical dispersion	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5773	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 08 Physik, Mathematik u. Informatik	de
jgu.organisation.number	7940	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	The European physical journal : H	de
jgu.journal.volume	45	de
jgu.pages.start	123	de
jgu.pages.end	173	de
jgu.publisher.year	2020	-
jgu.publisher.name	Springer	de
jgu.publisher.place	Berlin u.a.	de
jgu.publisher.uri	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2020-10027-6	de
jgu.publisher.issn	2102-6467	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	510	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	530	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1140/epjh/e2020-10027-6
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485
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