A physicist whose work on black-body radiation led to Planck's law and the use of the Planck constant. He received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.[ref]

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Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist best known for his role in the development of quantum theory, which revolutionized the understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He was born on April 23, 1858, and died on October 4, 1947. In 1900, Planck introduced the idea that energy is quantized, proposing that electromagnetic energy could be emitted only in discrete quantities, or "quanta.