MAX PLANCK

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MAX PLANCK

• a brief biographical sketch by
• Carl J. Wenning

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

• German physicist
• Born Kiel, Schleswig, April 23, 1858
• Died Gottingen, October 3, 1947

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Most notable accomplishment

• Worked closely with thermodynamic physicists
• Explained blackbody radiation curve where Wein
  Raleigh failed
• Plancks solution based upon quantized energy
  states Ehf