dec 24, 1900 - German physicist Max Planck
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suggests, while describing his law of black body radiation, that light may be emitted in discrete frequencies or “quanta”, and establishes the value of the Planck constant to describe the sizes of these quanta. This is often regarded as marking the birth of quantum physics.
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