Ernst Pringsheim Sr.

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Ernst Pringsheim Sr. (11 July 1859 – 28 June 1917) was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. He made, together with Otto Lummer, important measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900.