Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ForMemRS[1] (English: /ˈplæŋk/,[2]

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German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ( listen); 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was
a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won
him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.[4]
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,[5] which revolutionized human understanding of atomic
and subatomic processes. In 1948, the German scientific institution
Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which Planck was twice president) was
renamed Max Planck Society (MPG). The MPG now includes 83
institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.