Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
1858 - Born on April 23rd in Kiel, Germany. German physicist. The father of quantum theory and eponym of Planck's constant.
1879 - Planck studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, where his teachers included Kirchhoff and Helmholtz, and received his doctorate of philosophy at Munich.
1880-1885 - He was Privatdozent in Munich.
1889 - Was a Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Kiel.
1894 - The Prussian Academy of Sciences appointed him a member.
1900 - He announced his derivation of the relationship: this was based on the revolutionary idea that the energy emitted by a resonator could only take on discrete values or quanta. The energy for a resonator of frequency v is hv where h is a universal constant, now called Planck's constant.
1906 - His work is summarized in two books Thermodynamik (Thermodynamics) and Theorie der Wärmestrahlung (Theory of heat radiation).
1912 - Was the Prussian Academy of Sciences' permanent secretary.
1926 - He was elected to Foreign Membership of the Royal Society.
1928 - Awarded the Society's Copley Medal.
1937 - He became President of the Kaiser.
1944 - He suffered a personal tragedy when one of them was executed for his part in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1947 - Died on October 4th in Göttingen.
1879 - Planck studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin, where his teachers included Kirchhoff and Helmholtz, and received his doctorate of philosophy at Munich.
1880-1885 - He was Privatdozent in Munich.
1889 - Was a Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Kiel.
1894 - The Prussian Academy of Sciences appointed him a member.
1900 - He announced his derivation of the relationship: this was based on the revolutionary idea that the energy emitted by a resonator could only take on discrete values or quanta. The energy for a resonator of frequency v is hv where h is a universal constant, now called Planck's constant.
1906 - His work is summarized in two books Thermodynamik (Thermodynamics) and Theorie der Wärmestrahlung (Theory of heat radiation).
1912 - Was the Prussian Academy of Sciences' permanent secretary.
1926 - He was elected to Foreign Membership of the Royal Society.
1928 - Awarded the Society's Copley Medal.
1937 - He became President of the Kaiser.
1944 - He suffered a personal tragedy when one of them was executed for his part in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1947 - Died on October 4th in Göttingen.
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