Each year, scientists from the more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society enter images showcasing their work from the most various research fields. The most spectacular ones form the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was 1900 before researchers succeeded in producing a comprehensive measurement of black-body radiation and the theoretician Max Planck established a radiation law that corresponded to these ...