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Max Planck

Max PlanckAKA Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Born: 23-Apr-1858
Birthplace: Kiel, Germany
Died: 4-Oct-1947
Location of death: Göttingen, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Originator of quantum theory

Father: Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck
Mother: Emma Patzig
Wife: Marie Merck (b. 1861, m. 1887, d. 1909, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Erwin (b. 1893, d. 1945 execution for Hitler assassination plot)
Son: Karl (b. 1888, d. 1916)
Daughter: Margarete (twin, b. 1889, d. 1917 in childbirth)
Daughter: Emma (twin, b. 1889, d. 1919 in childbirth)
Wife: Marga von Hösslin (b. 1882, m. 1910, d. 1948, one son)
Son: Herrmann (b. 1911)

    High School: Maximilian Gymnasium, Munich
    University: University of Munich (attended 1874-77)
    University: University of Berlin (attended 1877-78)
    University: University of Munich (1879)
    Professor: University of Kiel (1885-89)
    Professor: University of Berlin (1889-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1918
    Lorentz Medal 1927
    Copley Medal 1929
    American Philosophical Society 1933
    Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Author of books:
Thermodynamik (1897, nonfiction, Thermodynamics)
Theorie der Wärmestrahlung (1906, nonfiction, Theory of heat radiation)


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