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A Short Biography of Max Planck

Author Name:

Max Planck

Born As:

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Other Names:

Born:

23 Apr 1858

Died:

4 Oct 1947




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Physicist                          
Selected Works:

Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik - 1897
Entropy and Temperature of Radiant Heat.” Annalen der Physik - 1900
On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum. Annalen der Physik - 1901.                          
Mother Emma Patzig
Father Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck
First wife Marie Merck,  four children, Karl, twins Emma and Margarete, and Erwin.
Second wife Marga von Hoesslin, one son Hermann.                          
Pour le Mérite" for Science and Arts - 1915
Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 - awarded 1919
Lorentz Medal - 1927
Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches - 1928

Max Planck medal - 1929, together with Albert Einstein
Planck received honorary doctorates from the universities of Frankfurt, Munich, Rostock, Berlin, Graz, Athens, Cambridge, London and Glasgow.

The asteroid 1069 was given the name "Stella Planckia" - 1938                          
In January 1945, Max’s son, Erwin, was executed by the Nazis because he participated in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944.