Max Plank
Max Planck
(1858- 1947)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist who created the quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. Max Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, on April 23 1858. He was the sixth child of a professor of law at the University of Kiel. He died at Gottingen on October 4, 1947.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
-Max Planck
Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics and the atomic theory. Planck’s theory (quantum theory) transformed our understanding of the atom and the subatomic process on an atom (of or belong to a process that occurs within an atom).Planck’s ideas were afterward used by Albert Einstein when he was building up the theory of relativity that changed the way we think of time and space.
He entered the University of Munich in 1874, at the age of 16. Along with Professor Phillip von Jolly, he studied and researched physics. The earliest work Plank did was on the topic of thermodynamics (the area of physical science that deals with the links between heat and other forms of energy); he gained this interest from Kirchoff, who he approved of. He published many papers on the theory of dilute solutions and thermoelectricity. Planck made the discovery in the 1900s, of what is called Planck’s constant, Planck’s quantum theory says that radiant energy (energy that is transmitted in the form of radiation) can only be released or absorbed in separate quantities (quanta). He gave the name ‘quantum’ to the tiniest mass of energy that can be absorbed in the figure of electromagnetic radiation (a kind of radiation including visible light, radio waves, gamma rays, and X-rays). The equation e=hf, is perhaps the equation of the photon theory of light (in
(1858- 1947)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist who created the quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. Max Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, on April 23 1858. He was the sixth child of a professor of law at the University of Kiel. He died at Gottingen on October 4, 1947.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
-Max Planck
Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics and the atomic theory. Planck’s theory (quantum theory) transformed our understanding of the atom and the subatomic process on an atom (of or belong to a process that occurs within an atom).Planck’s ideas were afterward used by Albert Einstein when he was building up the theory of relativity that changed the way we think of time and space.
He entered the University of Munich in 1874, at the age of 16. Along with Professor Phillip von Jolly, he studied and researched physics. The earliest work Plank did was on the topic of thermodynamics (the area of physical science that deals with the links between heat and other forms of energy); he gained this interest from Kirchoff, who he approved of. He published many papers on the theory of dilute solutions and thermoelectricity. Planck made the discovery in the 1900s, of what is called Planck’s constant, Planck’s quantum theory says that radiant energy (energy that is transmitted in the form of radiation) can only be released or absorbed in separate quantities (quanta). He gave the name ‘quantum’ to the tiniest mass of energy that can be absorbed in the figure of electromagnetic radiation (a kind of radiation including visible light, radio waves, gamma rays, and X-rays). The equation e=hf, is perhaps the equation of the photon theory of light (in