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 ...

His institutional support was instrumental in the establishment of the new quantum mechanics and his initiative led to the creation of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik in 1925, which was later ...

The society in which Max Planck grows up is marked by profound changes in the economy, working life, politics and public life Kaiser Wilhelm II was an autocratic monarch with a traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...