What is Max Planck?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Max Planck | image = Max Planck (1858-1947).jpg | image_size = 200px | birth_date = {{birth date|1858|4|23|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Kiel]], [[Holstein]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1947|10|4|1858|4|23}} | death_place = [[Göttingen]], [[West Germany]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]] | field = [[Physics]] | alma_mater = [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] | work_institutions = [[University of Kiel]]<br />[[Frederick William University]]<br />[[University of Göttingen]]<br />[[Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Alexander von Brill]] | doctoral_students = [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]]<br />[[Erich Kretschmann]]<br />[[Walther Meißner]]<br />[[Walter Schottky]]<br />[[Max von Laue]]<br />[[Max Abraham]]<br />[[Moritz Schlick]]<br />[[Walther Bothe]]<br />[[Julius Edgar Lilienfeld]]<!--<br />[[Hilde Heinicke]]<br />[[Karl Körner]]<br />[[Isidor Malkin]]<br />[[Wilhelm Wenzel]]<br />[[Fritz Reiche]]--> | known_for = [[Planck constant]]<br />[[Planck postulate]]<br />[[Planck's law|Planck's law of black body radiation]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = {{nowrap|[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1918)}} |signature = Max Planck signature.jpg |footnotes = 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. == Life == Planck came from an old fashioned, intelligent family. His great-grandfather and grandfather were both [[theology]] [[professor]]s in [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]]; his father was a [[law]] professor in Kiel and Munich; and his [[Father|paternal]] uncle was a [[judge]]. [[File:Max Planck signature 10 years old.jpg|thumb|left|Max Planck's signature