Max Planck
Max Planck
Justin Thomas
Period 4
Chemistry
10/08/96
On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany.
He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age
of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher
Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose
physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he was an
exceptional pianist who had acquired the gift of being able to hear absolute
pitch. His favorite works of music were known to be Schubert and Brahms.
Entering the University of Munich in 1874 he got little inspiration and was
unimpressed at the University of Berlin which was between the years of 1877 and
1878. He in turn did independent studies primarily on Rudolf Clausius' writings
of thermodynamics which inspired him and in July 1879 he received his doctoral
degree at the age of twenty-one. He became a lecturer at the University of......
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