Max Planck

1858 - 1947

country of citizenship: German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Bizone

languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish, German

educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Frederick William University, Maximiliansgymnasium München, Humboldt University of Berlin

occupation: theoretical physicist, university teacher, physicist, philosopher

award received: Nobel Prize in Physics, Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches, Max Planck Medal, Goethe Prize, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Lorentz Medal, Harnack medal, Helmholtz Medal, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Liebig Medal, Franklin Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin, Guthrie Lecture, Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Foreign Member of the Royal Society

position held: Geheimrat

student of: Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Gustav Bauer

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (English: , German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ; 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.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, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for Planck's constant, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units, today called Planck units, expressed only in terms of fundamental physical constants. Planck was twice president of the German scientific institution Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1948, it was renamed the Max Planck Society, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, and nowadays includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions. Source: Wikipedia (en)