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half of the 36 Ph.D. thesis researches completed prior to 1929 In 1914, after the initial great discoveries of Einstein, Rutherford and Bohr, Kunz published "An Attempt at an Electromagnetic Emission Theory of Light," which he prefaced with the following reference to Einstein's Theory of Relativity: "When a phys al theory which is mathematically complicated and is only

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