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“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.”

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Scientific Autobiography

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Max Planck
Max Planck

Max Planck, born on April 23, 1858 in Germany, died on October 4, 1947. He was a renowned German physicist and one of the founders of quantum theory, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of Planck's constant. more

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