Max Planck was a German physicist born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany. He held several prestigious positions including professorships at Berlin University. Planck made groundbreaking contributions to physics, including deducing the relationship between energy and frequency of radiation. He is considered the founder of quantum theory and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for this work. Planck played a pivotal role in the development of modern physics.

1. MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG
PLANCK
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its
opponents and making them see the light, but rather
because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation
grows up that is familiar with it."
Founder of the Quantum Theory
April 23, 1858 - October 4, 1947

2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
 Born in Kiel, Germany
 Son of Julius Wilhelm and Emma Planck
 Twice Married, Marie Merck, who died in 1909,
Remarried Marga von Hösslin
 Had five children
 Studied at the Universities of Munich and Berlin

3. POSITIONS HELD
 Privatdozent in Munich from 1880 to 1885
 Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Kiel
until 1889
 Professor at Berlin University, where he
remained until his retirement in 1926
 President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the
Promotion of Science, a post he held until 1937
 Prussian Academy of Sciences appointed him a
member in 1894 and Permanent Secretary in
1912.

4. CONTRIBUTIONS/AWARDS
 Able to deduce the relationship between the
energy and the frequency of radiation
 Planck's most important work but also marked a
turning point in the history of physics
 Founder of Quantum Theory
 Society's Copley Medal in 1928
 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918

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