Max Planck
1858 – 1947 · aged 89
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
- Born
- 23 Apr 1858 · Kiel
- Died
- 4 Oct 1947 · Göttingen
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- 23 Apr 1858BornBorn in Kiel
- 1885RoleProfessor
- 1908RoleGeheimrat
- 1914AwardHelmholtz Medal
- 1915AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 1918AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1918AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1921AwardLiebig Medal
- 1925AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1926AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1927AwardFranklin Medal
- 1927AwardLorentz Medal
- 1928AwardAdlerschild des Deutschen Reiches
- 1929AwardCopley Medal
- 1929AwardMax Planck Medal
- 4 Oct 1947DiedDied in Göttingen
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Major world events during their lifetime (1858 – 1947).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (German: [ˈmaks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist. Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, primarily in his role as the originator of quantum theory and one of the founders of modern physics, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for the Planck constant,
h
{\displaystyle h}
, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units, now called Planck units, expressed in terms of physical constants. The Planck relation, E=
h
{\displaystyle h}
ν, states that the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency.
Planck was twice President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1948 it was renamed the Max Planck Society, and today includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific disciplines. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
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