PLANCK

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)

Synonyms:

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck; Max Planck; Planck

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Credits

Context examples:

Lead author on the study Viviane Slon, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) in Leipzig, said We knew from previous studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together (...) But I never thought we would be so lucky as to find an actual offspring of the two groups.

(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)

The team, including Carnegie's Eduardo Banados and led by Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, made this discovery by accident when investigating quasars, which are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This means that double-star systems of the type studied here are excellent candidates to host habitable planets, despite the large variations in the amount of starlight hypothetical planets in such a system would receive, said Max Popp, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey, and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)

A new image from the Planck space telescope reveals the magnetic field lines of our Milky Way galaxy.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

ESA's Planck satellite, a mission with significant participation from NASA, has revealed that the first stars in the universe started forming later than previous observations of the cosmic microwave background indicated.

(First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought, NASA)

Separate measurements from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which maps the cosmic microwave background, predicted that the Hubble constant value should now be 67 kilometers per second per megaparsec.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Some of our best predictions for how much dark matter and dark energy are in the universe come from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which looks at the light from about 400,000 years after the Big Bang.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)

The presence of these early monsters, with masses several billion times the mass of our Sun, is a big mystery, says Farina, who is also affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching bei München.

(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)