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Along came Max Planck to knock this assumption into a cocked hat with his discovery of bundles and jumps. In 1900 Planck announced that radiant energy could only be propagated in tiny, indivisible bundles which he called quanta. Furthermore these bundles did not proceed through space continuously, but by jumps. It was not long before experimenters were finding this lumpiness and jerkiness everywhere. Albert Einstein used it to explain photoelectric action. Subatomic explorers found that atoms had only a fixed number of orbits in which their electrons might travel; that the electrons jumped from one orbit to another with emission...
...Germany the Jewish savant now has no chance at all to earn a living. Aryan scientists made that plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...
Kudos-The $1,000 prize for the best paper presented at the meeting went to Dr. Henry Eyring, 32, research associate at Princeton, for smart use of Nobel Laureate Max Planck's Quantum Mechanics to explain how the elements hold together in chemical combinations. By mathematics he has shown how to make light hydrogen atoms spin clockwise or counterclockwise at will, how to introduce bromine into organic compounds most easily. By mathematics he has proved that pure fluorine is the least active of the halogen group of elements (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine), a fact which controverts accepted chemistry...
Goethe as a scientist was crisply eulogized in Weimar by Physicist Max Planck, author of the famed Quantum Theory. Clap, clap went the hands not only of all the foreign diplomats but also of all the rectors of all the German universities, of all the premiers of all the German states except Prussia, of Professors Schreiber of Yale, Woodbridge of Columbia and the Rector of the Academy of Paris at the Sorbonne, Professor Sebastien Charlety...
Professor Edwin C. Kemble and Professor John C. Slater, now Lecturer at Harvard, as well as head of the Department of Physics at the Mass. Institute of Technology, specialize in theoretical physics. They have given much attention to the general theory of radiation, as based upon the conceptions of Planck, Bohr, Einstein and others...