Max Planck's 1940 and 1942 papers were marked retracted due to anachronistic modern copyright and digitization procedures applied to historical republications, demonstrating that contemporary notions of duplicate publication cannot be imposed retrospectively without distorting the scientific record.
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Max Planck's 1940 and 1942 papers were marked retracted due to anachronistic modern copyright and digitization procedures applied to historical republications, demonstrating that contemporary notions of duplicate publication cannot be imposed retrospectively without distorting the scientific record.