Post by ray on Mar 26, 2020 23:27:03 GMT
In his most important work, published in 1900, Planck deduced the relationship between energy and the frequency of radiation, essentially saying that energy could be emitted or absorbed only in discrete chunks, which he called 'quanta', even if the chunks were very small. His theory marked a turning point in physics and inspired up-and-coming physicists such as Albert Einstein.
Max Planck received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1918 for his discovery of elementary energy quanta. Planck was working in thermodynamics, trying to explain why 'blackbody' radiation, something that absorbs all wavelengths of light, didn't radiate all frequencies of light equally when heated.
The laser would not have been possible without an understanding that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
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Max Planck received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1918 for his discovery of elementary energy quanta. Planck was working in thermodynamics, trying to explain why 'blackbody' radiation, something that absorbs all wavelengths of light, didn't radiate all frequencies of light equally when heated.
The laser would not have been possible without an understanding that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
