Max Planck

Max Planck was born in Germany on the 23rd of April in 1858 - 4th of October in 1947. His discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. His father was a professor of constitutional law in the university of Kiel. Planck studied in the universities of Munich and Berlin. In 1927 he became President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the promotion of Science, a position he held until 1937. His earliest work was on the subject of thermodynamics. Max published papers on entropy, thermoelectricity and on the theory of dilute solutions. His work is summarised in two books ‘Thermodynamics’ and ‘Theory of heat radiation’. Planck was able to deduce the relationship between the energy and the frequency of radiation. Max was elected to Foreign Membership of the Royal Society in 1926.