Max Planck
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Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist who lived from 1858 to 1947 and is best known for founding quantum mechanics through his work on energy and light. His discoveries fundamentally changed our understanding of how the physical world works at the smallest scales.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (/plɑːŋk/; German: [ˈmaks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, primarily in his role as the originator of quantum theory and one of the founders of modern physics, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for the Planck constant,
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1858 births1947 deaths19th-century German physicists20th-century German physicistsAcademic staff of LMU MunichAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinAcademic staff of the University of KielCommons link from WikidataCorresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesCreators of temperature scales