Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS (/plɑːŋk/; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as an originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. However, his name is also known on a broader academic basis, through the renaming in 1948 of the German scientific institution, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which he was twice president), as the Max Planck Society (MPS). The MPS now includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.
Early life and career
Planck came from a traditional, intellectual family. His paternal great-grandfather and grandfather were both theology professors in Göttingen; his father was a law professor in Kiel and Munich.
Planck was born in Kiel, Holstein, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck; of his given names, Marx (a now obsolete variant of Markus or maybe simply an error for Max, which is actually short for Maximilian) was indicated as the primary name. However, by the age of ten he signed with the name Max and used this for the rest of his life.
Max Planck Medal
The Max Planck medal is the highest award of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (English: German Physical Society); the world's largest organization of physicists; for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. It is awarded annually. The winner is awarded with gold medal and hand-written parchment.
List of recipients
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by Something For Kate
Max Planck
by: Something For KateSo the start, is my seed.
And thirty-seven thousand feet, forwards, backwards, and underneath.
Your last word turns, like a cyclone, just outside my window.
Your good advice all tied around my ankle.
Had to go, had to take off, and hide myself from everyone.
So their reasons, won't become my reasons.
'Cause they're talking, they're talking, talkin' again.
And the chain reaction,
like a slow wave crashin',
to come and change everything and wash me away.
So I make way for some chaos.
The ripple on the surface sends me secrets,
and I keep them.
Like a reoccurring dream,
of Max Planck and you're running rings around me.
But you can't solve me.
And you're trying, you're trying, trying again.
I need a chain reaction,
like a slow wave crashin'.
To come and change everything and wash me away.
We stumble in the dark, stumble in the dark.
And this is how it starts, this is how it starts, starts.
You carry your escape everywhere,
just in case you find yourself there, find yourself there.
And a chain reaction (chain reaction),
like a slow wave crashin' (slow wave crashin'),
would come and change everything and wash me away, away, away, away.
Wash me away, 'n' wash me away.