The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of J-aggregates of polymethine dyes. The old approach proposed by Franck and Teller in ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

It’s the residence of the institute’s registrar, unremarkable, except for the fact that it was where the legendary physicist Max Born lived ... speed of light, the Planck’s constant, and ...

The smallest time interval ever defined. Named after theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), Planck time is 10-43 seconds; however, the only measurement ever actually made was more than ...

But, for practical purposes, there was a problem—one that may help explain why making cacio e pepe can be so frustrating: ...

The Max Planck Institutes and research facilities operated by the MPG are divided into three sections: the Biology and Medicine Section (BMS), the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section (CPTS), and ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner satisfaction and animation," wrote the world-famous physicist Max Planck ...