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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947) was a German physicist, best known for proposing that energy was quantised. This addressed a major theoretical problem known as 'the ultraviolet catastrophe' whereby the spectra of radiation from hot bodies did not match theoretical predictions. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics (1918).
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