Makers birthdays: Max Planck

Happy Birthday to the father of quantum physics! Born Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, or Max, as he was known from age 10, was born on this day in 1858 in Kiel, Germany. He studied at the University of Munich before working as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Kiel and the University of Berlin. He became close friends with Alb...

2009-04-24 10:00:22 | This article is from Make Blog

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