Word: planck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
...fields and in terrestrial magnetism is still needed to check him. The theory, says Dr. Einstein, provides a conception for a new geometry of space having for constants the speed of light, the charge of an electron, the mass of an electron, the mass of a proton, and Max Planck's wave-corpuscular light constant...