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Following his previous research into the irreversibility of thermal processes, Max Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation in 1897. He attempted to explain with Maxwell’s ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have identified who is most susceptible to online ...

A new model developed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) extends the theory of elastic phase separation towards nanoscopic structures.

What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner satisfaction and animation," wrote the world-famous physicist Max ...

Concerning the early years of this fundamental concept of modern physics: how Max Planck formulated it at the turn of the century and how others enlarged it up to 1923 ...

In theoretical physics, any physical theory has a limited area of applicability ... of blackbody radiation at high frequencies, Max Planck was forced to introduce into theoretical physics the ...