{"id":212245,"date":"2025-04-23T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/max-planck"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:40:16","slug":"max-planck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/max-planck","title":{"rendered":"Max Planck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHPEHvRPkM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help: IPA\/English\" title=\"Help: IPA\/English\">\/ \u02c8 p l \u00e6 \u014b k \/<\/a> ;<sup id= cite_ref-3 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck#cite_note-3\"> [ 2 ]<\/a> <\/sup> German: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help: IPA\/Standard_German\" title=\"Help: IPA\/Standard German\">[maks \u02c8pla\u014bk]<\/a> <sup class= ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File: title=\"File: De-Max Planck.ogg\">\u24d8<\/a><\/sup> ;<sup id= cite_ref-4 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck#cite_note-4\"> [ 3 ]<\/a> <\/sup> 23 April 1858 \u2013 4 October 1947) was a German <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theoretical_physicist\" class=\"\" title=\"Theoretical physicist\">theoretical physicist<\/a> whose discovery of energy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum\" title=\"Quantum\"><i>quanta<\/i><\/a> won him the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics\" title=\"Nobel Prize in Physics\">Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a> in 1918.<sup id= cite_ref-5 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck#cite_note-5\"> [ 4 ]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_mechanics\" title=\"Quantum mechanics\">quantum theory<\/a> and one of the founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_physics\" title=\"Modern physics\">modern physics<\/a>,<sup id= cite_ref-6 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck#cite_note-6\"> [ 5 ]<\/a> <\/sup><sup id= cite_ref-7 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck#cite_note-7\"> [ 6 ]<\/a> <\/sup> which revolutionized understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atom\" title=\"Atom\">atomic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subatomic_particle\" title=\"Subatomic particle\">subatomic<\/a> processes. He is known for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planck_constant\" title=\"Planck constant\">Planck constant<\/a>, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unit_of_measurement\" title=\"Unit of measurement\">units<\/a>, today called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planck_units\" title=\"Planck units\">Planck units<\/a>, expressed only in terms of fundamental <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physical_constant\" title=\"Physical constant\">physical constants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Planck was twice president of the German scientific institution <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Society\" title=\"Kaiser Wilhelm Society\">Kaiser Wilhelm Society<\/a>. In 1948, it was renamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Planck_Society\" title=\"Max Planck Society\">Max Planck Society<\/a> (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) and nowadays includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (\/ \u02c8 p l \u00e6 \u014b k \/ ; [ 2 ] German: [maks \u02c8pla\u014bk]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}