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RefNoMS/603/7/191
Previous numbers1221
LevelItem
TitleLetter from G H [George Henry] Livens, The University, Sheffield, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorLivens; George Henry (1886-1950); British mathematician
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date11 June 1912
DescriptionHe thanks Larmor for reading over his paper, and for sending a copy of Larmor's Bakerian Lecture. He was aware of its contents, but thought he had a different interpretation removing the difficulty of [Max] Planck's formulation. Larmor's presentation deduces Planck's law without any assumption on energy, while Livens took that element to be the same throughout the system, and he made it zero. Larmor's cell is fundamentally different, in that Livens has followed Planck, and he contrasts the two approaches. He does not see how Larmor can get Planck's law unless he makes a different 'k' for part sof the system. Livens thinks he will communicate his views to the Philosphical Magazine, after more consideration. He hopes 'to be able to show that most of the ingenious consequences of 'quanta' theory merely involve Planck's formula and not his quanta'.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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