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Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, was a German theoretical physicist probably the most influential of modern physics, as his discovery of the energy quanta, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. sparked the configuration of the predominant branch of such discipline, quantum mechanics. Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. In 1948, the German scientific institution Kaiser Wilhelm Society was renamed Max Planck Society. The MPS now includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.
BornMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, April 23, 1858, Kiel, Duchy of Holstein
DiedOctober 4, 1947, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Allied-occupied Germany
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Kiel, University of Göttingen, Kaiser Wilhelm Society
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
ThesisOn the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory (1879)
Doctoral studentsErich Kretschmann, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Max Abraham, Max von Laue, Moritz Schlick, Walter Schottky, Walther Bothe, Walther Meissner, Richard Becker
Other notable studentsWolfgang Köhler, Lise Meitner
Known forSee full list
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Physics (1918), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1926), Lorentz Medal (1927), Copley Medal (1929), Max Planck Medal (1929), Goethe Prize (1945)
Children5

About Max Planck

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Max Planck

Physicist Max Planck was born in Kiel, Germany on April 23, 1858. He dies at the age of 89, on October 4, 1947.

He was a German physicist who discovered the Quantum theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. His theoretical physics studies revolutionized our understanding of atomic and subatomic phenomena.

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Max Planck before becoming famous

Max Planck was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1858 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

Because of his tutor, Hermann Muller, he learnt and was inspired by science.

Achievement of Max Planck

The earliest evidence of Quantum Physics was his black-body radiation law.

Max Planck's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

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In 1911, he and his second wife Marga von Hosslin had a son named Herrmann.

Max Planck Collabed with

He was a well-known physicist whose work has been compared to Physicist Albert Einstein's.

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