In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University ... These were later called "quanta," from the Latin for "how much?" Though it sounded outlandish, applying this idea to the problem of ...

These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got their name from the work of Max Planck. "An Act of Desperation" In 1900, Max Planck was a physicist in Berlin studying something called the ...

A recently published paper that was published in Classical and Quantum Gravity gives hope that this could ... An important role in this concept of quantized spacetime is played by the Planck units ...

It was 1900 before researchers succeeded in producing a comprehensive measurement of black-body radiation and the theoretician Max Planck established a radiation ... size that we today refer to as ...

Looks like we’re closer than ever to connecting general relativity and quantum mechanics. A new study suggests that when we break down spacetime into tiny discrete units, gravity, which is a ...

Perovskites are also ideal materials to explore a variety of quantum states ... In a recent paper published in Nature Physics, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research ...