Max Planck

Max Planck (1858-1947), often referred to as the “father of quantum theory”, he made a groundbreaking contribution by introducing the concept of quantization of energy. In 1900, Planck formulated Planck’s law of black-body radiation, which explained how the energy of radiation emitted by a black body is quantized in discrete units, now known as photons. This work laid the foundation for quantum mechanics, a field that would later be developed by others, including Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Planck’s constant (h), a fundamental constant in quantum mechanics, is named in his honor. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 in recognition of his revolutionary work on quantum theory.