Historical Figure
Max Planck
1858–1947
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
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Birth
1858 April 23, 1858 →Biography
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
Timeline
Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
December 7 →Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
December 14 →Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
October 19 →El físico alemán Max Planck presenta las bases de la física cuántica al formular que la energía se radia en unidades pequeñas separadas, denominadas cuantos.
September 12 →en el clima de represión tras el fallido intento de asesinato de Adolf Hitler el 20 de julio de 1944 por parte de Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, el político Erwin Planck ―hijo del físico Max Planck―, cercano al coronel que perpetró el intento de magnicidio, es asesinado apenas cinco días después de que se anunciara su indulto.
January 23 →More from the Victorian Era
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