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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. 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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Born 23 April 1858 · Died 4 October 1947 · Q9021
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“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations … To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view”
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as.com: Max Planck, Nobel Prize winner in Physics: “He who has gone so far as to stop being confused, has also stopped working”
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Google celebrated Planck's 156th birthday with a Google Doodle on April 23
The Max Planck Florida Institute For Neuroscience opened in Jupiter, Florida
A special postage stamp and a 10-Euro silver commemorative coin were issued to mark his 150th birthday
A Berlin commemorative plaque was unveiled at Planck's former residence in Berlin-Grunewald
The GDR issued a 5-mark commemorative coin to mark his 125th birthday
The lunar crater Planck and the adjacent valley Vallis Planck were named after Planck
The Max Planck Society presented a bust of Planck, created in 1939, to the Physical Society of the GDR
A commemorative plaque was unveiled in the forecourt of the Humboldt University of Berlin
The German Post Office Berlin honored Max Planck with a 30-pfennig stamp in the series "Men from Berlin's History
It was renamed the Max Planck Society, and today includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific disciplines
Died 1947-10-04.
“To believe in science, one must believe in the rationality of the world.”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”
Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1945).
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such
Planck's son Erwin was arrested by the Gestapo following the attempted assassination of Hitler in the 20 July plot
Wrote: "In me an ardent desire has grown to persevere this crisis and live long enough to be able to witness the turning point, the beginning of a new rise
“Max Planck - Original Interview”
Planck celebrated his 80th birthday
Entitled "Religion und Naturwissenschaft" ("Religion and Natural Science") he suggested the importance of these symbols and rituals related directly with a believer's ability to worship God, but that one must be mindful
His term as president of the KWG ended, and the Nazi government pressured him to refrain from seeking another term
Won Harnack medal (1933).
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1932).
Won Max Planck Medal (1929).
Won Copley Medal (1929).
Awarded Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1928).
Won Franklin Medal (1927).
Won Lorentz Medal (1927).
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1926).
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1925).
Won Liebig Medal (1921).
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1918).
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1918).
When Italy was still a neutral power, Planck voted successfully for a scientific paper from Italy, which received a prize from the Prussian Academy of Sciences, where Planck was one of four permanent presidents
Won Helmholtz Medal (1914).
While his oldest son, Karl, was killed in action at Verdun
Einstein pointed out the anomalous behavior of specific heat at low temperatures as another example of a phenomenon which defies explanation by classical physics
Career landmark: Geheimrat (1908).
Was offered Ludwig Boltzmann's position in Vienna, but turned it down to stay in Berlin
Albert Einstein published three papers in the journal Annalen der Physik
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow.
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Athens.
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
Awarded Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin.
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.
Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin.
Career landmark: Participated in 5th Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
Career landmark: Participated in 1st Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
Followed from what he called the "principle of elementary disorder", which allowed him to derive Wien's law from a number of assumptions about the entropy of an ideal oscillator, creating what was referred to as the Wien
To form the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG); from 1905 to 1909 Planck was the president
Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation
Planck was named the successor to Kirchhoff's position at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin – presumably thanks to Helmholtz's intercession – and by 1892 became Full Professor
In a series of treatises entitled "On the Principle of the Increase of Entropy"
Career landmark: professor (1885).
Planck became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, waiting until he was offered an academic position
Planck summarized Clausius' writings, pointing out contradictions and inaccuracies in their formulation and then clarifying them
Jolly argued that physics was almost complete, being a "highly developed, nearly fully matured science, that through the crowning achievement of the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy will arguably soon
Planck went to the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin for a year of study with physicists Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff and mathematician Karl Weierstrass
The possibility that the energy states of a physical system could be discrete)
Planck enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1874).
The family moved to Munich, where Planck enrolled at Maximiliansgymnasium
Born 1858-04-23.
Rudolf Clausius formulated the so-called second law of thermodynamics, which states that a voluntary (or spontaneous) transfer of energy is only possible from a warmer to a colder body, but not vice versa