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Some Interesting and Useful Web Sites Some Interesting and Useful Web Sites http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1 Newton Project on line (texts, mss., letters) http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=47 Newton’s optical papers https://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/electron/jjinfo.htm# bibliography on the history of the electron http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath677/kmath677.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting’s_theorem http://dbserv.ihep.su/hist/owa/hw.fulltextlist_txt downloads of many primary texts http://www.aip.org/history/web-link.htm on-line exhibitions and links http://alberteinstein.info/ Einstein Archives with on-line database http://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eckern/adp/history/Einstein-in-AdP.htm for Einstein’s articles in Annalen der Physik http://press.princeton.edu/books/einstein11/c_biblio.pdf cumulative bibliography of all primary and secondary sources cited in Collected Papers of Albert Einstein vols. 1–10 http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_stat_1905/ on Einstein’s statistical papers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpLOKqTcSk Einstein Bose CondensateColdest Place in the Universe http://www.calcuttaweb.com/people/snbose.shtml on Bose https://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje41/text10 and 11.htm on Natanson http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1927/compton-lecture.html Compton’s biography http://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/bitstream/2003/24257/1/006.pdf http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/ON-1/Historia/natanson.htm http://edition-open-access.de/studies/2/index.html quantum theory & quantum mechanics textbooks http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1914 (von Laue), resp. .../1915 (the Braggs), /1919 (Stark), /1921 (Einstein), /1922 (Bohr), /1923 (Millikan), /1927 (Compton), /2012 (Haroche), etc. for Nobel lectures © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 187 K. Hentschel, Photons, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95252-9 188 Some Interesting and Useful Web Sites http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/abs/2000/03/epn00303/epn00303. html on R.A. Millikan’s struggle with theories http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html http://www.jeos.org/index.php/jeos_rp/article/view/10045s https://www.nhn.ou.edu/~jeffery/astro/astlec/lec006.shtml https://www.mpq.mpg.de/5020834/0508a_photon_statistics.pdf experiments on photon statistics https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_rpfs/1.14183!/file/photon.pdf What is a photon? http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/quantum.pdf http://mediathek.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mediathekPublic/versionEins/Conferences- Workshops/ HQ3/Quantum-Optics/Joan-Bromberg.html https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_visualize_a_photon https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/273032/what-exactly-is-a-photon http://www.nature.com/milestones/milephotons/index.html 23 Nature Milestones Photons httpa://indico.cern.ch/event/423687 Proceedings of the Warsaw Conference 2005 on “The Photon: Its First Hundred Years and the Future” http://inspirehep.net/record/1623145/files/grangier.pdf on Grangier’s experiments with single photons 2005 References This list of cited publications makes no distinction between primary and secondary sources. 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