During his vacations, he mainly hiked in the Alps. Max Planck had a life-long passion for mountain climbing. He hiked through many parts of the Alps on vacations with his family or friends who were ...

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 ...

In 1899 Max ... life" never matched up with the predictions of classical physics. Several distinguished physicists had created complex equations trying to work it out, but none solved the problem ...