WHO WAS MAX PLANCK?
Max Planck (1858 - 1947) was a German theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. He is credited as the founder of quantum theory — the physics of very small objects such as photons and electrons, which do not follow the rules of “classical” physics that apply to larger objects. By the end of the 1890s, he had realized that light and electromagnetic waves exist in a tiny unit that he called a quantum, which in turn had values based on multiples of a constant — now called Planck’s constant. His work relating energy and the frequency of radiation, in which Planck’s constant appears, was published in 1900. He was an immediate and influential supporter of Einstein’s theory of general relativity when it was published in 1905.
The Max Planck Institutes, mostly in Germany, are named after him. There are 83 institutes in different fields.
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