As Sommerfeld said in his famous text "Spectral Lines and Atomic Constitution, " on which a generation of physicists learned the subject, "In the fine structure constant e is the representative of the electron theory, h the appropriate representative of the quantum theory, c comes from relativity and characterizes it in contrast to classical theory. Anonymous
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