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1858 – 1947Max Planck (1858-1947)Died 4 October 1947, aged 89Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose 1900 work on black-body radiation founded quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. The Max Planck Society is named after him.
1858 – 1947Max PlanckFather of Quantum TheoryWinner of the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum mechanics and the Planck constant.