Max Planck
Max Planck (Kiel April 23, 1858 - Göttingen October 4, 1947) was a great German physicist. He advanced the subjects of thermodynamics, thermoelectricity, and the theory of dilute solutions, and was one of the founders of quantum mechanics.
Planck's revolutionary discovery, one of the most influential in all of science, was that a resonator could emit energy in discrete units, or quanta. The energy emitted by a resonator of frequency ν is hν, where "h" is a universal constant that is now called Planck's constant. This explanation resolved important discrepancies between theory and observations, and helped lay a foundation for the development of quantum mechanics.
Planck's research in quantum theory was published in the Annalen der Physik, and his work was summarized in the books Thermodynamik (Thermodynamics) (1897) and Theorie der Wärmestrahlung (Theory of heat radiation) (1906).[1]
Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918 “in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.”[2][3]
He was sympathetic to Christianity and critical of atheism.[4]
Planck's son was executed in 1945 for his part in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944.
Publications
- Religion and Science (Religion und naturwissenschaft)[5]
References
- ↑ Biography. Nobelprize.org.
- ↑ The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al, 2005
- ↑ Raymond J. Seeger (December 1985). Planck, Physicist. The American Scientific Affiliation. Retrieved on 2012-11-04.
- ↑ Jonathan Sarfati (25 November 2011). Should creationists accept quantum mechanics?. Creation Ministries International. Retrieved on 2012-11-04.
- ↑ Max Planck (1937). Religion und naturwissenschaft (in German).
