Max Planck - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1918
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Max Planck

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1918
in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich
Languages
Spanish, German
date of birth
4/23/1858
place of birth
Kiel
date of death
10/4/1947
place of death
Göttingen
Lived
89 years

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educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • start time: 1874
  • Maximiliansgymnasium München
  • Frederick William University Berlin
employer
  • Kiel University
    • start time: 1885
    • end time: 1889
  • Frederick William University Berlin
    • start time: 1889
    • end time: 1927
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • end time: 1885
    • start time: 1880
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
position held
  • professor
    • start time: 1885
  • Geheimrat
    • start time: 1908
doctoral student
  • Karl Erich Hupka
    • end time: 1909
  • Max von Laue
  • Moritz Schlick
  • Gustav Ludwig Hertz
  • Walter H. Schottky
  • Walther Meissner
  • Richard Becker
  • Eduard Grüneisen
  • Erich Schumann
  • Walter Gordon
  • Heinrich Karstens
  • Isidor Israel Malkin
  • Hilde Heinicke
  • Wilhelm Wenzel
  • Karl Körner
  • Erich Kretschmann
  • Walther Bothe
  • Max Abraham
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/13/1914
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 6/11/1922
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1933
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 7/1/1929
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1926
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/2/1926
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Sondershäuser Verband
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • AGV München
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • Shevchenko Scientific Society
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Emergency Association of German Science
field of work
  • philosophy
  • physics
  • thermodynamics
  • theoretical physics
  • quantum theory
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • philosopher
  • theoretical physicist
work location
  • Munich
notable work
  • Planck constant
  • Planck's law
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