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Experimental observations on the wavelength distribution of the energy emitted by a black body as a function of temperature were at variance with the predictions of classical physics. Planck was able to deduce the relationship between the ener gy and the frequency of radiation.
Named in his honour, ESA’s Planck mission is now analysing the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, which was formed soon after the Big Bang. The data Planck collects will allow astronomers to search for clues about how galaxies form and cluster together, giving us the large-scale structure we see around us in space today.
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918. Born: 23 April 1858, Kiel, Schleswig (now Germany) Died: 4 October 1947, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: Berlin University, Berlin, Germany.
Max Planck, (born April 23, 1858, Kiel, Schleswig—died Oct. 4, 1947, Göttingen, Ger.), German physicist. He studied at the Universities of Munich and Kiel, then became professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin (1889–1928). His work on the second law of thermodynamics and blackbody radiation led him to formulate the ...
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Max Planck. 1858 - 1947. 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. As a...
(1858 - 1947) << Back to List of Important Scientists. Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist, considered to be the initial founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the 20th Century.
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