The smallest time interval ever defined. Named after theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), Planck time is 10-43 seconds; however, the only measurement ever actually made was more than ...

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 ...

A study trip to Berlin made a formative impression on him, giving him the opportunity to attend lectures by the leading physicists of his time, Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff. Planck ...

Max Planck Institutes focus on research fields that are particularly innovative, or that are especially demanding in terms of funding or time requirements. And their research spectrum is continually ...