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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"Supermassive black holes act as natural telescopes," said Dr. Miguel Zumalacárregui from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

The research was funded by the Max Planck Society and the Leakey Foundation.

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026

It will draw on decades of work done by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and its stellarator the W7-X.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

"The days when a college degree guaranteed a good job are gone, and graduates now face immense employment pressure," says Xiang Biao, director of Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

While Planck proposed that molecules’ vibrations were quantized, Einstein proposed that light came in little packets of energy called photons.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife