Max Planck: He has a rightful place within the continuum of development of an accurate definition of the speed of light. The chart below is from Wikipedia with a single line that has been added. Take Planck’s Length — 1.616255×10^-35 meters — divided by Planck’s Time — 5.391247×10^-44 seconds and you have 299,792.4228 kilometers per second.

He didn’t claim it, so we’ll shout it out for him.

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“In 1899 Max Planck defined Planck Time as the unit of time (in a system of natural units or “Planck units”) whereby light travels the distance of one (1) Planck length in a vacuum. The calculation, Planck Length divided by Planck time is equal to 299,792,422.79 meters/second.”

van Remortel, N. The nature of natural units. Nature Phys 12, 1082 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3950