Max Planck Justin Thomas Period 4 Chemistry 10/08/96         On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he …showed first 75 words of 881 total…

…showed last 75 words of 881 total…by the Gestapo for trying to assassinate Hitler in 1944. By the time the war ended Max Planck lost the will to live and died of natural causes on October 4, 1947 when he was eighty-nine.         Plack's contributions to the modern world are vast. He led Albert Einstein towards the theory of relativity which led to the construction of the atom bomb. That is one huge example of the things Max Plank made possible by discovering quantum theory.