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Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary

Dec 1, 2000

It was 100 years ago when Max Planck published a paper that gave birth to quantum mechanics - or so the story goes. History reveals, however, that Planck did not immediately realize the consequences of his work and became a revolutionary against his will.

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