A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner satisfaction and animation," wrote the world-famous physicist Max Planck ...

Following his previous research into the irreversibility of thermal processes, Max Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation in 1897. He attempted to explain with Maxwell’s ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

The Quantum Theory Concerning the early years of this fundamental concept of modern physics: how Max Planck formulated it at the turn of the century and how others enlarged it up to 1923 By Karl K ...

It is rare for a scientific idea or theory to fundamentally change our ... In around 1900, physicists such as Max Planck and Albert Einstein began to describe, in an ad hoc way, why several ...

These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got their name from the work of Max Planck. "An Act of Desperation ... For example, there is a theory by Werner Heisenberg called the Uncertainty ...

It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others ... those earliest days of quantum mechanics, the theory ruling the microworld ...

Researchers uncover a new quantum state in twisted graphene, offering insights into electron behavior and potential ...

A research team discovered a quantum state in which electrons move in a completely new way under a twisted graphene structure ...