Competition

[Libby01]

120 years ago today which scientist, who later became a Nobel Laureate, produced a scientific formula which became known as his Law ?

Wilhelm Wien
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Ernest Rutherford

[geevo41]

Max Planck

[Old_Geezer]

Thus the expression, as thick as a Planck.

[Ellipsis]

Ironically, Max Planck, far from being (by nominative determinism) as thick as one could possibly be, was actually very smart indeed ...

[mallyh]

niels bohr

[geevo41]

We are looking at 1900 - Neils Bohr was 1913

[Ellipsis]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law#Finding_the_empirical_law
Max Planck produced his law on 19 October 1900 as an improvement upon the Wien approximation, published in 1896 by Wilhelm Wien, which fit the experimental data at short wavelengths (high frequencies) but deviated from it at long wavelengths (low frequencies).