Mathematician:Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Mathematician

German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in $1918$.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 23 April 1858 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (now Germany)
• Died: 4 October 1947 in Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Planck's Constant
  • Reduced Planck Constant (also known as the Dirac Constant for Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac)

• Planck Length
• Planck Time

• Planck Postulate
• Planck's Law of Black Body Radiation
• Fokker-Planck Equation (with Adriaan Daniël Fokker)

Results named for Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck can be found here.

Publications

• 1900: Über eine Verbesserung der Wienschen Spektralgleichung ("On an Improvement of Wien's Equation for the Spectrum") (Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft Vol. 2: pp. 202 – 204)
• 1900: Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum ("On the Theory of the Energy Distribution Law of the Normal Spectrum") (Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft Vol. 2: p. 237)
• 1900: Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge ("On Irreversible Radiation Processes") (Annalen der Physik Vol. 306, no. 1: pp. 69 – 122)
• 1900: Entropie und Temperatur strahlender Wärme ("Entropy and Temperature of Radiant Heat") (Annalen der Physik Vol. 306, no. 4: pp. 719 – 737)
• 1901: Über das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspektrum ("On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum") (Annalen der Physik Vol. 309, no. 3: pp. 553 – 563)
• 1903: Treatise on Thermodynamics
• 1906: Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung
• 1914: The Theory of Heat Radiation
• 1915: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics
• 1943: Zur Geschichte der Auffindung des physikalischen Wirkungsquantums (Naturwissenschaften Vol. 31, no. 14-15: pp. 153 – 159)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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