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The
company's name originates from founder Patrizia Tomasi and her great
admiration for the man and physicist Max Planck. During
a meeting at the German Society of Physics, on December 14, 1900, Max
Planck presented his article "On the Law of Distribution of Energy
in the Normal Spectrum". The article, which at first
attracted little attention, marked the beginning of a revolution in
Physics. The date of its presentation has been considered as the
birth of quantum mechanics. 
Towards
the end of the 19th century, Max Planck suggested that if the radiation
within a cavity was in equilibrium with the atoms of the wall of a black
body, then there would be a link between the distribution of energy of
radiation and the energies from the atoms that compose the cavity. Planck
supposed that the radiant atoms behave as harmonic oscillators and that
each atom oscillates at a given frequency v.
From that point onwards, Planck understood that each oscillator can
absorb or emit radiant energy in quantities proportional to their
frequencies v. Hence, it was established that: E
= h v Where
h is a constant of proportionality that Planck supposed unique
to all oscillators. For
more than two years, Max Planck tried to prove his own theory wrong,
mindful of the revolution his finding would cause to classical
physics. Nevertheless, he did not succeed. In
time: h=6,6256 x 10-34 J.s
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