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Who discovered the concept of photon?

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Numerous scientists contributed to the discovery of this concept, but the key was introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905. This concept was used to support the experiment of the photoelectric effect to prove that light could be as a wave too. Then this name photon was given 21 years later, in 1926 by Gilbert N. Lewis.

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