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Max Planck

theoretical physicist

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Max Planck German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, one of the most fundamental pillars of modern physics. His discovery that energy is radiated and absorbed in discrete packets called "quanta" earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 and launched a revolution in science.

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".

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1858

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