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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Basic timeline of Max Planck

This post is a basic timeline of physicist Max Planck (1858-1947). There are 13 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1858: Born at Kiel, Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
• 1877: Enrolls at Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin
• 1879: Writes dissertation On the second law of thermodynamics
• 1880: Writes thesis Equilibrium states of isotropic bodies at different temperatures
• 1885: Becomes professor at the University of Kiel
• 1889: Begins teaching at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin
• 1897: Publishes Treatise on Thermodynamics
• 1899: Proposes Planck's law to address the black-body radiation problem
• 1900: Proposes the Planck postulate for quantitation of energy
• 1905-1909: Serves as president of the German Physical Society
• 1918: Receives Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1926: Retires from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin
• 1947: Died at age 89 in Göttingen, Germany