Lest we forget about our Planck – Boltzmann feud, Planck had originally turned his attention to the ultraviolet catastrophe in ... have been impossible for Max Planck to know that his energy ...

"An Act of Desperation" In 1900, Max Planck was a physicist in Berlin studying something called the "ultraviolet catastrophe." The problem was the laws of physics predicted that if you heat up a ...

As the light of the 20th century was peeking over the horizon, a young physicist by the name of Max Planck was taking to heart some career advice he had received while he attended Munich ...