A theory of radiation

This paper was prepared for publication after the death of the author by T. Lewis, M.Sc. Professor R. A. Milne, F.R.S., has also seen the manuscript and makes the following observation: “ This paper should be published not only as an act of piety in Schott’s memory, but because it is done with intense care and skill and is throughout critical. Quantum physicists of the type who write the fashionable papers in the Proceedings may despise it; but ultimately a rational basis must be found for what at present appears irrational, and Schott’s paper may well show the limit of what can be achieved in a particular direction and close up avenues which might otherwise remain to be tested. I think Schott’s paper shows not that the classical theory cannot account for the radiation of atoms, but that the radiation properties associated with the classical theory are wrongly based.”