
Ajit Pai @AjitPai
On this date in 1900, Max Planck published a paper in which he posited that radiant energy is made up of particle-like components, known as “quanta.” The field of quantum mechanics was born. Planck would win @NobelPrize for Physics in 1918. https://t.co/4q3twtNldc — PolitiTweet.org