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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Part of the pressure comes from parents who also see their child as their only hope for the future, says renowned Chinese sociologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Xiang Biao.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

"Decades carefully tracking stars orbiting our galaxy's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, have led to this breakthrough discovery," Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology had developed methods sensitive enough to detect very small amounts of RNA in bacterial cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

In total, about 160 small slices of Donnie's brain and spinal cord were kept in the archives of the Munich research centre - later renamed the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry - ever since.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he lost everything–papers, diaries, a lifetime of accumulations.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson