Max Planck

Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (English: , German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for Planck's constant, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units, today called Planck units, expressed only in terms of fundamental physical constants. Planck was twice president of the German scientific institution Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Planck has received more than 4,003,434 page views. His biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Max Planck is the 8th most popular physicist (down from 7th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Germany (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Physicist.

Max Planck is most famous for his work in quantum physics. He was able to show that light is not a continuous wave, but instead comes in packets of energy called quanta.