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...Planck presents his quantum theory at a meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin...
...first newspaper calling for revolution in Russia. Churchill, 25, was elected to the House of Commons. J.P. Morgan began working with a young executive named Charles Schwab to buy out Andrew Carnegie and conglomerate U.S. Steel, by far the biggest business in the world. And the German physicist Max Planck made one of the discoveries that would shape the century: that atoms emit radiations of energy in bursts he called quanta...
...ELECTRONIC CENTURY A defining event actually occurred three years before the century began: the discovery of the electron by British physicist J.J. Thomson. Along with Planck's 1900 theory of quantum physics, this discovery led to the first weapon of mass destruction, which helped hasten the end of the Second World War and became the defining reality of the cold war. Alan Turing harnessed electronics to devise the first digital computers. Five centuries earlier, Gutenberg's printing press had cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor of a thousand. That paved the way for the Reformation by allowing...
Huber, who was awarded the 1988 Nobel prize in Chemistry, is the director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie in Martinsried, Germany...
...willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, "if there is an ultimate limit...