Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to the discovery of phenomena like superposition and entanglement – and today’s ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got their name from the work of Max Planck. "An Act of Desperation ... For example, there is a theory by Werner Heisenberg called the Uncertainty ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity ... quantized spacetime is played by ...

The Standard Model extends the principles of quantum mechanics—which describes ... One of the first contributions came from Max Planck, who introduced the concept of quantized energy.

A new study suggests that when we break down spacetime into tiny discrete units, gravity, which is a macroscopic phenomenon, can be explained through quantum theory. In most everyday situations ...

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 ...

At this time, physics was shaped by illustrious names such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Paul Ehrenfest, who laid the ...

A black-body model of sufficiently high ... the irreversibility of thermal processes, Max Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation in 1897. He attempted to explain with ...

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 ...