Awards & Winners

Max Planck

Date of Birth 23-April-1858
Place of Birth Kiel
(Germany, Schleswig-Holstein)
Nationality Germany
Profession Physicist
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRS was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame rests primarily on his role as originator of the quantum theory. This theory revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes, just as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity revolutionized the understanding of space and time. Together they constitute the fundamental theories of 20th-century physics.

Awards by Max Planck

Check all the awards nominated and won by Max Planck.

1929


Max Planck Medal
Copley Medal
(For his contributions to theoretical physics and especially as the originator of the quantum theory.)

1918


Nobel Prize in Physics
(in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta)