1858 - Planck - bio

Max Planck was born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany and was the physicist responsible for creating the beginnings of quantum theory. Planck was working on a description of electromagnetic radiation when he discovered that energy is only radiated in discrete bundles, or quanta. A constant derived from the equation he produced is now known as “Planck’s constant”.

PRECURSOR:
1791 - Faraday
1822 - Clausius
1824 - Kirchoff
1831 - Maxwell
1844 - Boltzmann

CONCURRENT:
1853 - Lorentz
1885 - Bohr
1887 - Schrodinger
1892 - de Broglie
1879 - Einstein
1900 - Pauli
1901 - Heisenberg

SUBSEQUENT:

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