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Max Planck

Quantum theory; thermodynamics

1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

2 questions

  1. Direct observation of the temperature changes at electrolyte diffusion fronts: the untested thermal prediction of Planck's 1890 electrodiffusion theory

  2. The mechanical origin of osmotic pressure: kinetic versus static accounts of force generation and transmission across a semipermeable membrane

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