Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig

German physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is born on April 23 in Kiel, Holstein, Germany. 

German physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics, in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta. ... 

Figure 3.21 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, who in 1900 proposed the quantum hypothesis that fully explains the physics of blackbody radiation. (Published with permission from the Deutsches Museum, Munich.)...

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, bom Apr. 23, 1858, in Kiel, Germany, died Oct. 4, 1947, in Gottingen, Germany. 

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947). German physicist. Planck received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his quantum theory. He also made significant contributions in thermodynamics and other areas of physics. 

FIGURE 9.14 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947). Planck s quantum theory, proposed in 1900, marks the beginning of modern science. Trained as a thermodynamicist, he based his theory on thermodynamic arguments. It is said that he had some misgivings about the truth of his own ideas until experimental evidence was found in support of them. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society was renamed the Max Planck Institute in his honor in 1930 and is still a major institution in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in 1918. 

The first step to a better understanding of the universe came in 1900 when the German physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (Figure 9.14) proposed a relatively simple equation to predict the intensities of blackbody radiation. There is some speculation that Planck came up with an equation that fit the data and then reasoned out a justification, rather than supposing a new idea and working it up to see what would happen. No matter. For our purposes, all that is important is that he was correct. 

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