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:
1913 – quantum theory
[…] 1831 – Maxwell 1849 – Klein 1856 – Thomson 1858 – Planck 1862 – Hilbert 1864 – Minkowski 1868 – […]