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Karl Ernst Ludwig Max (Max) Planck

Born 23 Apr 1858 in Kiel, Herzogtum Holstein, Deutscher Bund

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Died 4 Oct 1947 at age 89in Göttingen, kreisfreie Stadt, Niedersachsen, Britische Besatzungszone

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Biography

Max Planck is Notable.

• Noted theoretical physicist
• Planck's constant
• Son of Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck & (2nd wife) Emma Patzig[1]
• 6th child of his father, 4th of his mother
• Father (Johann) was a law professor but his father and grandfather were theology professors.
• Originally named Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck

Max was born in 1858 in Kiel with the first name Marx, a contraction of Marcus. However, he has never used this name and from childhood on went by the name of Max.[2][3] He was the son of Wilhelm Planck and Emma, née Patzig. After studying physics in München and Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1879 in München. One year later, at the age of 22, he became a professor. After he had become extraordinary professor for theoretical physics at the University of Kiel in 1885, he was able to marry his fiancée Marie Merck in 1887 in München. In 1889 he became professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.
After his wife died in 1909, he married her niece Marga von Hoesslin in 1911 in München.

He was a member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, the Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, which was later to be renamed the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. In 1919 he was awarded the Nobel Price in Physics for 1918.[4] In 1914 he was elected as a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1926 as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In 1929 the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft awarded him together with Albert Einstein the first Max-Planck-Medaille, its highest award for theoretical physics.

He died in 1947 in Göttingen after a fall and several strokes.[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ English Wikipedia article on Max Planck, accessed 2 July 2016
2. ↑ Gestatten, Marx Planck, SPIEGEL ONLINE, 24 Apr 2008
3. ↑ Der Streit ums "r", Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 24 Apr 2008
4. ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918, Nobelprize.org
5. ↑ Hoffmann, Dieter, "Planck, Max", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001), S. 497-500 [Online-Version]
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #23903480

See also:

• The Britannica Guide to The 100 Most Influential Scientists (2007), pp. 233-236,252, 263,
• German Wikipedia article on Max Planck
• Schweizer, Günther und Irmscher, Klaus. Die südwestdeutschen Ahnen des Altbundeskanzlers Helmut Schmidt. In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien-und Wappenkunde. - 22. 1998/2000. - S. 265 - 289. statistik-bw.de, see also: brigittegastelancestry.com: This source contains a lot of genealogical Information about Helmut Schmidt's ancestors, in particular those from southwest Germany. It also shows connections between Helmut Schmidt and Max Planck (see this page).
• Wikidata: Item Q9021, en:Wikipedia
• https://geneee.org/max/planck?lang=en

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