Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light (1904)
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- What does it mean?
- This cites a 1904 lecture series by Thomson on light and molecules.
- In plain terms
- It is a lecture title on light and molecules.
- What can you take from it?
- Lecture series often summarize major scientific ideas.
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- How did he link molecules to light?
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