Planck

American  

[plahngk] / plɑŋk /

noun

1. Max Karl Ernst 1858–1947, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1918.

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Planck British  

/ plaŋk, plæŋk /

noun

1. Max ( Karl Ernst Ludwig ) (maks). 1858–1947, German physicist who first formulated the quantum theory (1900): Nobel prize for physics 1918

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Planck Scientific  

/ plängk /

1. German physicist who in 1900 formulated quantum theory, which explained and predicted certain phenomena that could not be accounted for in classical physics. Planck's theory was essential to the work of Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and many other modern physicists. In 1918 he won the Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

The international research team was led by astrophysics Ph.D. student Alexander Venner of the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany.

From Science Daily

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge have taken a closer look at a closely related process known as water autodissociation.

From Science Daily

"Magnetic correlations follow a single universal pattern when plotted against a specific temperature scale," explains lead author Thomas Chalopin of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

From Science Daily

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, investigated how limiting reproduction influences lifespan in mammals.

From Science Daily

ShiftCam’s Planck Studio is a solid-state drive the size of a chocolate square that can hold 4 or 8 terabytes’ worth of photos and videos.

From The Wall Street Journal