Max Planck

Max Karl Planck
Planck in 1933
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a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in physics (1918)
"in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta"
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Born
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck 23 April 1858 Kiel, Duchy of Holstein
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Died
4 October 1947 (aged 89) Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Bizone, Allied-occupied Germany
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Fields
Physics
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Alma mater
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics for his quantum theory (1918) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1926) Lorentz Medal (1927) Copley Medal (1929) Max Planck Medal (1929) Goethe Prize (1945)
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Institutions
University of Kiel University of Göttingen Kaiser Wilhelm Society
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Spouse(s)
Marie Merck ​ ​ ( m. 1887; died 1909) ​ Marga von Hösslin ​ ( m. 1911) ​
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Germany
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Children
5
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Doctoral advisor
Alexander von Brill Gustav Kirchhoff Hermann von Helmholtz
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Doctoral students
Erich Kretschmann Gustav Ludwig Hertz Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Max Abraham Max von Laue Moritz Schlick Walter Schottky Walther Bothe Walther Meissner Richard Becker
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Education
PhD in theoretical physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 1879.
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Other notable students
Wolfgang Köhler Lise Meitner
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Thesis
On the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory (1879)