Max Planck
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Personal Life
Born and raised in Kiel Germany on April 23rd 1858.
Died at Gottingen on October 4th, 1947.
Had 5 kids, 3 died young leaving him with 2 sons.
Education
Received his doctorate of philosophy at Munich in 1879.
Became the Privatdozent in Munich from 1880 to 1885, then The associate Professor at Kiel until 1889.
Then he remained the Professor at Berlin University until he retired in 1926.
Major Impact
The most important discovery that Planck made was The Planck's Constant, he deduced the relationship between energy and frequency. His discovery not only effected his studies, but it also answered many questions in past studies. If he hadn't made this discovery then we wouldn't be able to use frequency the way we do today.
Fun Facts!
Other talents
Max Planck was a very talented pianist and even considered music as a career, this is important because without Planck's constant we wouldn't be able to use frequency the way we do today.
Marriage life
Married twice, First his wife, who died, then he married her cousin, talk about a family man.
His feels
His personal tragedy came when his son was executed for attempting to assassinate Hitler.