Max Planck - Wikipedia The discovery of the Planck constant enabled him to define a new universal set of physical units (such as the Planck length and the Planck mass), all based on fundamental physical constants, upon which much of quantum theory is based
Max Planck – Biographical - NobelPrize. org This was not only Planck’s most important work but also marked a turning point in the history of physics The importance of the discovery, with its far-reaching effect on classical physics, was not appreciated at first
ESA Science Technology - Planck Planck addressed some of the most important questions in modern science: how did the Universe begin, how did it evolve to the state we observe today, and how will it continue to evolve in the future?
Max Planck - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists Max Planck changed physics and our understanding of the world forever when he discovered that hot objects do not radiate a smooth, continuous range of energies as had been assumed in classical physics
Max Planck - New World Encyclopedia By interpolating between the laws of Wien and Rayleigh-Jeans, Planck formulated the now-famous Planck's law of black-body radiation, which described the experimentally observed black-body spectrum very well
Planck units - Wikipedia Originally proposed in 1899 by German physicist Max Planck, they are relevant in research on unified theories such as quantum gravity The term Planck scale refers to quantities of space, time, energy and other units that are similar in magnitude to corresponding Planck units
ESA - Max Planck: Originator of quantum theory Born in 1858, Max Planck came from an academic family His father Julius Wilhelm Planck was Professor of Law at the University of Kiel, Germany, and both his grandfather and great-grandfather had been professors of theology at Göttingen