In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University ... up with the predictions of classical physics. Several distinguished physicists had created ...

It was 1900 before researchers succeeded ... body radiation and the theoretician Max Planck established a radiation law that corresponded to these measurements. He unintentionally triggered a ...

"An Act of Desperation" In 1900, Max Planck was a physicist in Berlin studying something called the "ultraviolet catastrophe." The problem was the laws of physics predicted that if you heat up a ...