The myth is also promoted in Chapter 3 of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes: > Plank had taught at Berlin since 1889. In 1900 he had proposed a r

The myth is also promoted in Chapter 3 of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes: > Plank had taught at Berlin since 1889. In 1900 he had proposed a revolutionary idea to explain a persistent problem in mechanical physics, the so-called ultraviolet catastrophe