Max Planck was a German physicist who originated quantum theory, showing in 1900 that energy is emitted and absorbed in discrete units called quanta. He received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.
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In 1900, German physicist Max Planck heuristically derived a formula for the observed spectrum by assuming that a hypothetical electrically charged oscillator in a cavity that contained black-body radiation could only change its energy in a minimal increment.
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