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Also Known As Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Born April 23, 1858 • Kiel
Died October 4, 1947 (aged 89) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1929) • Nobel Prize (1918)
Subjects Of Study Planck’s constant • Planck’s radiation law • blackbody radiation • quantum

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