A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's " h "
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Quantum theory was not originally developed for the sake of
interpreting photoelectric phenomena. It was solely a theory
as to the mechanism of absorption and emission of electromagnetic
waves by resonators of atomic or subatomic dimensions. It had nothing
whatever to say about the energy of an escaping electron or about the
conditions under which such an electron could make its escape, and up
to this day the form of the theory developed by its author has not been
able to account satisfactorily for the photoelectric facts presented herewith.
We are confronted, however, by the astonishing situation that
these facts were correctly and exactly predicted nine years ago by a form
of quantum theory which has now been pretty generally abandoned.