How the energy distribution of black-body radiation was really found [April 3, 1936]

Ernst Gehrcke

pp. 130-133

in: Klaus Hentschel (ed), Physics and national socialism, Basel, Birkhäuser, 1996

Abstract

Physics has assumed a course for some time now that makes our science appear so convoluted and in many respects so unclear that one would think physics were only a hotbed of complicated abstractions, where the invented abstract things rather than scientific empirical knowledge were what mattered. In other words: The distinction between the descriptive form and the object being described has become blurred.