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Noun: Planck  pla(a)ngk
  1. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)
    - Max Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Type of: physicist

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