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Max Planck | |
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| Born | April 23, 1858 |
| Died | October 4, 1947 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Known for | Planck constant Planck postulate Planck's law of black body radiation |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1918) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Kiel Frederick William University University of Göttingen Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander von Brill |
| Doctoral students | Gustav Ludwig Hertz Erich Kretschmann Walther Meißner Walter Schottky Max von Laue Max Abraham Moritz Schlick Walther Bothe Julius Edgar Lilienfeld |
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He is the father of Erwin Planck who was executed in 1945 by the Gestapo for his part in the July 20 plot. | |
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 in Kiel – October 4, 1947 in Göttingen) was a physicist from Germany. He discovered quantum mechanics. He won the Nobel Prize in physics.