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Max Planck, the scientist widely regarded as the “Father of Quantum Theory,” was born 156 years ago this week, on April 23, 1858. When Planck won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics, the presenter said, “It will be a long time before the treasures will be exhausted which have been unearthed as a result of Planck’s genius.” Scientists at Perimeter Institute and around the world are still mining the treasures of quantum theory. In commemoration of Planck’s birthday and his incalculable contributions to physics, PI presents … Some Quanta of Information About Planck was a gifted musician adept at singing and playing the organ, piano, and cello, as well as composing operas. Planck’s first university physics professor, the wonderfully named Phillipp von Jolly, advised Planck against studying physics because “almost everything is already discovered.” Asteroid 1069, named “Planckia” after him, is zipping roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Planck is the namesake of the Planck satellite, the data from which has mapped the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the fossil light of the big bang. April 24, the day after Planck’s birthday, is National Physics Day in the United States. Although Planck was known for a “dry, somewhat impersonal” teaching style, his classes were standing-room-only attractions. He was unfazed when students, overcome by the heat of the lecture hall, would pass out and fall to the floor. Planck’s obituary in The New York Times on Oct. 5, 1947 ranked him among “the immortals of science, such as Archimedes, Galileo, Newton and Einstein.” Planck once described quanta of energy as “the pennies of the atomic world.” When he was 85, Planck was still fit enough to climb a 3,000-metre mountain in the Alps. Planck’s son, Erwin, was deeply involved with the German Resistance to Nazism and was part of the 1944 “Plot to Kill Hitler,” for which he was imprisoned and executed. Planck and Walther Hermann Nernst organized the first Solvay Conference in Brussels, where Einstein convinced Planck about the quantum nature of light. Planck knew the importance of curiosity-driven research. He said: “Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”
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Max Planck, the scientist widely regarded as the Father of Quantum Theory, was born 156 years ago this week, on April 23, 1858. When Planck won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics, the presenter said, It will be a long time before
the treasures will be exhausted which have been unearthed as a result of Plancks genius. Scientists at Perimeter Institute and around the world are still mining the treasures of quantum theory.In commemoration of Plancks birthday and his incalculable contributions to physics, PI presents
Some Quanta of Information About
Planck was a gifted musician adept at singing and playing the organ, piano, and cello, as well as composing operas.
Plancks first university physics professor, the wonderfully named Phillipp von Jolly, advised Planck against studying physics because almost everything is already discovered.
Asteroid 1069, named Planckia after him, is zipping roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Planck is the namesake of the Planck satellite, the data from which has mapped the cosmic microwave background (CMB) the fossil light of the big bang.
April 24, the day after Plancks birthday, is National Physics Day in the United States.
Although Planck was known for a dry, somewhat impersonal teaching style, his classes were standing-room-only attractions. He was unfazed when students, overcome by the heat of the lecture hall, would pass out and fall to the floor.
Plancks obituary in The New York Times on Oct. 5, 1947ranked him among the immortals of science, such as Archimedes, Galileo, Newton and Einstein.
Planck once described quanta of energy as the pennies of the atomic world.
When he was 85, Planck was still fit enough to climb a 3,000-metre mountain in the Alps.
Plancks son, Erwin, was deeply involved with the German Resistance to Nazism and was part of the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler, for which he was imprisoned and executed.
Planck and Walther Hermann Nernst organized the first Solvay Conference in Brussels, where Einstein convinced Planck about the quantum nature of light.
Planck knew the importance of curiosity-driven research. He said:
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
