Events Tagged: "Planck"

17 events with tag "Planck"

1858 ID: 4584
April 23, 1858
Max Planck born in Kiel, Holstein - sixth child of law professor, shown early talent in music and physics
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1874 ID: 4585
Max Planck enters University of Munich at age 16 - studies physics under Philipp von Jolly who advises against physics career
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1879 ID: 4586
Planck receives doctorate from Munich - dissertation on second law of thermodynamics, age 21
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1885 ID: 4587
Planck appointed associate professor at Kiel - begins work on thermodynamics and entropy
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1889 ID: 4588
Planck succeeds Kirchhoff at University of Berlin - becomes full professor of theoretical physics
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1894 ID: 4589
Planck begins studying blackbody radiation problem - commissioned by electric companies to improve lightbulb efficiency
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1900 ID: 1145
Max Planck introduces quantum hypothesis - consciousness as fundamental, matter as derivative
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1909 ID: 4590
Planck's first wife Marie dies of tuberculosis - mother of his four children
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1916 ID: 4591
Planck's son Karl killed in World War I at Verdun - first of family tragedies
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1917 ID: 4592
Planck's daughter Grete dies in childbirth - second family tragedy within a year
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1918 ID: 4593
Planck receives Nobel Prize in Physics - awarded for discovery of energy quanta
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1919 ID: 4594
Planck's daughter Emma dies in childbirth - twin sister of Grete, married to Grete's widower
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1926 ID: 4595
Planck retires from University of Berlin - succeeded by Erwin Schrödinger
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1933 ID: 4596
Planck meets Hitler to protest Jewish scientist dismissals - Hitler flies into rage, Planck realizes futility
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1945 ID: 4597
January 1945
Planck's son Erwin executed by Nazis - implicated in July 20 plot against Hitler, Planck's last son
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1945 ID: 4598
February 1945
Planck's home destroyed in Allied bombing - loses library and correspondence, age 86
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1947 ID: 4599
October 4, 1947
Max Planck dies in Göttingen - age 89, buried with quantum formula h on gravestone
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