| Max Planck  AKA Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Born: 23-Apr-1858
Birthplace: Kiel, Germany
Died: 4-Oct-1947
Location of death: Göttingen, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Originator of quantum theory Father: Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck
Mother: Emma Patzig
Wife: Marie Merck (b. 1861, m. 1887, d. 1909, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Erwin (b. 1893, d. 1945 execution for Hitler assassination plot)
Son: Karl (b. 1888, d. 1916)
Daughter: Margarete (twin, b. 1889, d. 1917 in childbirth)
Daughter: Emma (twin, b. 1889, d. 1919 in childbirth)
Wife: Marga von Hösslin (b. 1882, m. 1910, d. 1948, one son)
Son: Herrmann (b. 1911)
High School: Maximilian Gymnasium, Munich
University: University of Munich (attended 1874-77)
University: University of Berlin (attended 1877-78)
University: University of Munich (1879)
Professor: University of Kiel (1885-89)
Professor: University of Berlin (1889-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1918
Lorentz Medal 1927
Copley Medal 1929
American Philosophical Society 1933
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Author of books:
Thermodynamik (1897, nonfiction, Thermodynamics)
Theorie der Wärmestrahlung (1906, nonfiction, Theory of heat radiation)
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