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Max Planck assumed that the energy emitted by oscillators in a blackbody is quantized, meaning it can only take on discrete values, in order to explain the experimental data for blackbody radiation. This assumption led to the development of the famous Planck's law, which accurately described the spectrum of radiation emitted by a blackbody.

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