It was 1900 before researchers succeeded in producing a comprehensive measurement of black-body radiation and the theoretician Max Planck established a radiation law that corresponded to these ...

Planck obtained his doctorate in Munich in 1879 with a dissertation entitled "On the second law of thermodynamics". By the age of 22 he had already earned his postdoctoral lecturing qualification and ...

Planck’s law of radiation also differed in a quite characteristic way from the previously formulated laws of nature. Planck’s action quantum, which appears as the characteristic constant in ...