Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Jon Todd
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     Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, on April 23, 1858.
Planck studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, and received his doctorate of
philosophy at Munich in 1879. He was appointed professor of physics at the University
of Kiel in 1885, then filled the same position at the University of Berlin from 1889 unitl
1928, the year he retired. Afterwards he became President of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Society for the Promotion of Science, where he stayed until 1937.

     Planck's earliest work was on the subject of thermodynamics, which led him
into the study of energy distribution. In 1900 Planck concluded that energy is radiated
in small, particular units, which he called quanta. Developing his quantum theory
further, he discovered a universal constant, which came to be known as Planck's
constant. Planck's law states that the energy of each quantum(E) is equal to the
frequency(v) of the radiation multiplied by the universal constant(h), or E=hv.

     Planck's discoveries were the start of an entirely new field of physics, known as
quantum mechanics; a theory based on using the concept of the quantum unit to
descri...

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