Conceptual Developments of Quantum Mechanics, Max Jammer
Thomas Kuhn, Black–Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894 – 1912
Mehra, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, 6 vol. set (for the full story of QM)
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