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title: "List of things named after Max Planck"
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This is a list of things named for the German scientist Max Planck:


== Physics ==
Boltzmann–Planck equation
Fokker–Planck equation
Nernst–Planck equation
Kelvin–Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics
Massieu–Planck potentials
Planck potential
Planck proposition, Planck statement, Planck's principle; see Kelvin–Planck statement
Planckian locus


=== Quantum mechanics ===
Planck constant
Planck postulate
Planck's law of black body radiation
Planck-taper window
Planck–Bessel window
Planck–Einstein relation


=== Cosmology ===
Planck units
Planck energy
Planck length
Planck mass
Planck time
Planck temperature
Planck epoch
Planck postulate
Planck scale
Planck star
Trans-Planckian problem


== Other ==
1069 Planckia, asteroid
Max Planck Society
Planck's principle
Planck (crater) on the Moon
Planck (spacecraft), space observatory
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, see Max Planck Society
Colegio Max Planck, in Trujillo, Peru.