Max Planck

The physicist of the

20th century

By: Minnie 1109

LIFE
- Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel,
Germany, on April 23, 1858.
- The son of Julius Wilhelm and Emma (ne
Patzig) Planck.
- His father was Professor of Constitutional Law
in the University of Kiel, and later in Gttingen.

LIFE

Married to Marie Merck.

Karl, the twins Emma and Grete, and Erwin.

He died at Gttingen on October 4, 1947.

STUDY
- Planck studied at the Universities of Munich
and Berlin.
- He received his doctorate of philosophy at
Munich in 1879.

CAREER
- He was Privatdozent in Munich from 1880 to 1885
- He involved Professor of Theoretical Physics at Kiel until 1889.
- Afterwards he became President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the
Promotion of Science, until 1937.

CAREER
He discovered new equation which became the
fundamental physicist constant.
His theory revolutionized our understanding of
atomic and subatomic processes.

WORK
- Plancks earliest work was on the subject of
thermodynamics.
- He published papers on entropy, on thermoelectricity and
on the theory of dilute solutions.
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 was awarded to Max
Planck "in recognition of the services
he rendered to the advancement of
Physics by his discovery of energy
quanta".

Reference

https://www.mpg.de/195494/
Kaiser_Wilhelm_Society

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/
physics/laureates/1918/planck-bio.html

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/
physics/laureates/1918/