> Is there an actual model of light based on his work? Yes: classical electromagnetism. It's an outrageously successful model of how light behaves. It doesn't

> Is there an actual model of light based on his work? Yes: classical electromagnetism. It's an outrageously successful model of how light behaves. It doesn't predict photons, but that doesn't mean it's not an "actual" model of light. You can include photons by taking Maxwell's equations and doing something called second quantization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_of_the_electromagnetic_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_of_the_electromag...). That gets you quantum effects that can explain behaviors like shot noise, but it misses things like photon-photon scattering. (Nonetheless, I would still call this an "actual" model of light.) Then there is full-on quantum electrodynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics), but that doesn't capture certain behaviors, like what happens to photons at the electroweak scale. But I would still call QED an "actual" model of light.