Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

Erst um 1900 gelingt den Experimentatoren die vollständige Vermessung eines Schwarzen Körpers und dem Theoretiker Max Planck die Aufstellung eines diesen Messungen entsprechenden Strahlungsgesetzes.

What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner satisfaction and animation," wrote the world-famous physicist Max Planck ...