(The Max Planck Society runs 83 throughout Germany ... HE CALLED PHYSICS “THE MOST SUBLIME SCIENTIFIC PURSUIT IN LIFE.” In his autobiography, Planck described why he chose to pursue physics.

Max Planck was trapped, as physicist Brandon Brown relates, and therefore could not escape from the turmoil of Germany’s wars. In an unusual approach to a scientific biography, each chapter ...

I just spent three-plus years writing a biography of the German physicist Max Planck, and I was most struck by one of his qualities. Yes, he was incredibly rigorous, mathematically adept ...

Max Planck provided this Principle in his Scientific Autobiography (and Other Papers, 1950). A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light ...

Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...

Regardless of the system, science is always in the foreground for him. Planck also served it as a science organiser, for whom the self-government of science was important. After 1945, he became the ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner satisfaction and animation," wrote the world-famous physicist Max Planck ...