Max Planck
Claimed by Daniel Kurniawan
Personal Life
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, on April 23, 1858 to Julius Wilhelm and Emma Planck. Planck was brought up in a large family - he was the sixth child - that valued scholarship, honesty, fairness, and generosity. His family greatly respected the church and state, displaying the importance of these values within the family. He began elementary school in Kiel, and although he was not the top student, he always came somewhere between third and eighth in the class. His best subject, as surprising as it sounds, was music, as he possessed the gift of perfect pitch and was an excellent pianist. He was also awarded the prize in catechism and good conduct almost every year.
When Planck was nine years old, his father, who was a distinguished jurist and professor of law at the University of Kiel, received an appointment at the University of Munich, where a teacher by the name of Hermann Müller stimulated Planck's interest in physics. After graduating at the age of 17, Planck ultimately chose physics as his career path because he had become deeply impressed by the absolute nature of the law of conservation of energy. Planck describes why he chose physics:
"The outside world is something independent from man, something absolute, and the quest for the laws which apply to this absolute appeared to me as the most sublime scientific pursuit in life.”
University Education
Planck entered the University of Munich in the fall of 1874
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http://www.famousscientists.org/max-planck/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1918/planck-bio.html