Max Planck
1858–1947
German physicist who originated quantum theory.
Max Planck (1858–1947) was a physicist, born in Kiel, Germany and died in Göttingen, Germany.
- Known as
- Physicist
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 1858, Kiel, Germany
- Died
- 1947, Göttingen, Germany
Alive at the same time as Max Planck
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- George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950, playwright
- Milton Hershey 1857–1945, chocolate maker
- Henry Ford 1863–1947, auto tycoon
- William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951, newspaper publisher
- Edvard Munch 1863–1944, painter
- Matthew Henson 1866–1955, explorer
- Marie Curie 1867–1934, scientist
- Orville Wright 1871–1948, aviation pioneer
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955, physicist
- Alexander Fleming 1881–1955, physician
Portrait: Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Med, CC BY-SA 3.0.
