Ladislas Natanson and Alfred Landé versus Planck’s law, the Boltzmann-Planck-Natanson statistics and the Bose statistics Cover Image

Ladislas Natanson and Alfred Landé versus Planck’s law, the Boltzmann-Planck-Natanson statistics and the Bose statistics
Ladislas Natanson and Alfred Landé versus Planck’s law, the Boltzmann-Planck-Natanson statistics and the Bose statistics

Author(s): Michał Kokowski
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Władysław Natanson; Ladislas Natanson; Alfred Landé; Boltzmann’s statistical method; Boltzmann statistics; Planck’s law; Planck statistics; Bose statistics; Boltzmann-Planck-Natanson statistics; Boltz

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the context and content of the November 1925 correspondence – so far overlooked by historians of physics – between Władysław (Ladislas) Natanson and Alfred Landé on Planck’s law and Bose statistics, and the effects of this interaction.The article publishes for the first time the transcription of two original letters in German and their translations into English.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 439-507
  • Page Count: 69
  • Language: English