Max Planck begins begins studying blackbody radiation…
1897 CE
Max Planck begins begins studying blackbody radiation in 1897.
The University of Kiel had appointed Planck as associate professor of theoretical physics in 1885, he having received his Ph.D from the University of Munich in 1879.
Further work on entropy and its treatment, especially as applied in physical chemistry, followed.
He publishes his Treatise on Thermodynamics in 1897.
He proposed a thermodynamic basis for Svante Arrhenius's theory of electrolytic dissociation.