AAPPS Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
AAPPS Bulletin Vol. 15 No. 1, February 2005
Cover Story

Developing Ideas about Photons: since the First Paper about Photoelectric Effect by Einstein in 1905
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Professor Ming-Feng Shih
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan


abstract
“These days, every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows what a photonis, but he is wrong,” Albert Einstein.
“Every physicist thinks that he knows what a photon is, I spent my life to find out what a photon is and I still don’t know it,” Albert Einstein.
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