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Max Planck

Also known as Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, Planck, Max

German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

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Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist who lived from 1858 to 1947 and is best known for founding quantum mechanics through his work on energy and light. His discoveries fundamentally changed our understanding of how the physical world works at the smallest scales.

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“Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.”
“We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”
“The energy and entropy of the world have no meaning, because such quantities admit of no accurate definition.”
“Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”

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date of birth: 1858-04-23
date of death: 1947-12-04
birth name: Maximilian Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (/plɑːŋk/; German: [ˈmaks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".

Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, primarily in his role as the originator of quantum theory and one of the founders of modern physics, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for the Planck constant,