What Max Planck thinks about energy
German physicist (1858 to 1947), professor of theoretical physics in Berlin; originated quantum theory and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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1 dated position, 1920, in their own words. Our reading of what Max Planck has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThat the decision could be made so soon and so definitely was due not to the proving of the energy distribution law of heat radiation, still less to the special derivation of that law devised by me, but rather should it be attributed to the restless forwardthrusting work of those research workers who used the quantum of action to help them in their own investigations and experiments.
↗The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory (Nobel Lecture, 2 June 1920)nobelprize.org 5th of 12 in this piece