biography
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Planck, Max (Karl Ernst Ludwig)
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| (1858–1947)
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Kiel, N Germany. He studied at Munich and Berlin, where he became professor of theoretical physics (1889–1926). His work on thermodynamics and black body radiation led him to abandon classical principles and introduce the quantum theory (1900), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. Several research institutes now carry his name. |
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