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

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these chemical defenses move through the forest food web.

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According to Maria Almudena Claassen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, this idea creates a misleading impression.

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To solve this problem, researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz developed a planar electron tunneling spectroscopy method that can operate under these extreme pressures.

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This research was largely supported by the Max Planck Society and the Max-Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials, which fosters collaboration with the University of Oxford.

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A team of international researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has now determined the primary process driving these large-scale blooms.

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