Following his previous research into the irreversibility of thermal processes, Max Planck turned his attention ... It was based on a counting method from Boltzmann’s atomic gas theory. In order to ...

This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg combined atomic and nuclear ...

the emerging discipline in which Max Planck was working, were arising from the experimental study of these problems. Was it still possible to base an explanation of the new heat and radiation ...

While there he had time to think and work out problems with the atomic model ... notch scientists who decided to remain. Along with Max Planck, he expressed hope of being able to preserve ...

Bohr proposed adding to the model the new idea of quanta put forth by Max Planck in 1901 ... His model was a huge leap forward in making theory fit the experimental evidence that other physicists ...

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the best-tested theory in ... Klaus Blaum at the Max-Planck-Institut für ...

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find ... Bohr turned to Planck's quantum theory to explain the stability of most atoms. He found that the ratio of energy ...

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 ...

Quasicrystals, exotic states of matter characterized by an ordered structure with non-repeating spatial patterns, have been ...