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German physicist, father of mass theory *
* Max Planck *

* German physicist, father of mass theory *

* Birthday - April 23, 1858 *

German physicist. The father of the well-known mass theory and winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Kiel. He was educated at the Universities of Munich and Berlin under the guidance of Gustaf Kirkhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz.

He wrote a dissertation on the second law of thermodynamics in 1879 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich. After graduating, he was a professor of physics at the same university (1880-85) and later at Kiel (1885-89). Planck was appointed to...