Planck was as steeped in traditional physics as his colleagues, but he had an open mind. The older way wasn't working. So he changed one basic assumption: energy, instead of being continuous ...

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 ...

Challenges to theoretical physics, the emerging discipline in which Max Planck was working ... Important discoveries made during attempts to construct a more efficient steam engine contributed to its ...

The combustion efficiency in a car engine, for example ... He initiated this first Dutch Max Planck Center together with Detlef Lohse, who heads the Physics of Fluids Department at the University of ...