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Max Planck
Planck in 1933
BornMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
23 Apryle 1858(1858-04-23)
Kiel, Duchy o Holstein
Dee'd4 October 1947(1947-10-04) (aged 89)
Göttingen, Lawer Saxony, Germany
NaitionalityGerman
Alma materLudwig Maximilian Varsity o Munich
Kent for
Hauf-marrae(s)Marie Merck (1887–1909)
Marga von Hösslin (1911–1947)
Awairds
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorAlexander von Brill
Gustav Kirchhoff[1]
Hermann von Helmholtz
Doctoral students
Ither notable studentsLise Meitner
Signatur
Notes
His son Erwin Planck wis executit in 1945 bi the Gestapo for his part in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler Julie 20 plot.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS[3] (German: [plaŋk]; Apryle 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) wis a German theoretical physicist that oreeginatit quantum theory, that wan him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.[4]

Planck made mony contreibutions tae theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the oreeginator o quantum theory, that revolutionised human unnerstaundin o atomic an subatomic processes. In 1948 the German scienteefic institution the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (o that Planck wis twice preses), wis renamed the Max Planck Society (MPS). The MPS nou includes 83 institutions representin a wide range o scienteefic directions.

References

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  1. Physics Tree profile Max Planck
  2. The dilemmas of an upright man: Max Planck and the fortunes of German science. J. L. Heilbron. Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-674-00439-6. p.183.
  3. Born, M. (1948). "Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. 1858–1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (17): 161–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0024.
  4. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on 2011-07-05.