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One hundred seventeen years ago, German physicist Max Planck wrote a revolutionary paper that gave birth to the field of quantum physics that we are still striving to understand. Planck's momentous suggestion that radiation is quantized —that it comes in discrete amounts—was a proclamation that arrived with little fanfare on December 14, 1900, only later to be hailed as mankind's greatest hope in discovering the true nature of reality and our place in the universe, as well as providing us with powerful energy sources and milita ristic might.
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