Max Planck
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Philosophy, Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Planck’s discovery in 1900 that light consists of infinitesimal “quanta” and his articulation of the quantum theory replaced classical physics with modern quantum physics. This work not only resulted in Planck’s receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1918 but also became a major enabling factor in the work of many other Nobel laureates.
Early Life
Born into an intellectual family in Kiel, Schleswig, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck spent most of his early life in Munich, where the family moved in the spring of 1867, when he was...
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