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Plank, Max

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858–1947) was a German physicist Nobel laureate in 1918 by his discovery of energy quanta. He postulates that the energy did not flow in a steady continuum but in discrete packets or quanta. He established a relationship between the energy (E) radiated from a heated body and the frequency of that radiation (ν): E = hν (where h is known as Planck’s constant and has the value 6.62606957 × 10−34 Js).

The NASA/ESA partnership space mission, which was launched on May 14, 2009, was designed to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over a broad range of far-infrared wavelengths.

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  1. CITEUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Fernando B. Figueiredo

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  1. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Amils

  2. Labo. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux (LAB), Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers (OASU), Floirac CX, France

    Muriel Gargaud

  3. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), Inst. Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain

    José Cernicharo Quintanilla

  4. Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Henderson James Cleaves

  5. Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

    William M. Irvine

  6. Dépt. Sc. de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Daniele Pinti

  7. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) DPI/E2U, Paris CX, France

    Michel Viso

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Figueiredo, F.B. (2014). Plank, Max. In: Amils, R., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_5273-3

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