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Max Planck
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100 years before quantum mechanics, one scientist glimpsed a link between light and matter
MirageC / Getty Images Robyn Arianrhod, Monash University The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was…
The Sun Isn’t Yellow. It’s Green.
Answering the simple question of the sun's actual color reveals it's not yellow but green-peaked, a counterintuitive fact that led directly to Max Planck's quantum revolution.