Born #onthisday in 1858, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. This all happened in the context of blackbody radiation and the "ultraviolet catastrophe".

I wrote a bit about Plank, blackbody radiation, the ultraviolet catastrophe, and how this led to the development of quantum mechanics here: https://davidmeyer.github.io/qc/oscillators.pdf. The LaTeX source is here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/xjmyvksvtztb.

As always, questons/comments/corrections/* greatly appreciated.

#planck #blackbodyradiation #quantummechanics

2 workshops in February are coming with big steps at @ESIVienna. 📢 Are you coming too❓

Topics of the workshops:
🕳️ #blackbodyradiation #astrophysics #cosmology
📐 #MaterialsScience #GeometricAnalysis

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