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complete name:	Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
nobel prize:	physics
award year:	1918
prize share:	Prize share: 1/1
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 was awarded to Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
birth name:	Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
given name:	Max
family name:	Planck
occupation:	university teacher
occupation:	theoretical physicist
field of work:	theoretical physics
work location:	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Landshut, Germany
description:	Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as an originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. However, his name is also known on a broader academic basis, through the renaming in 1948 of the German scientific institution, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which he was twice president), as the Max Planck Society (MPS). The MPS now includes 83 institutions representing a wide range of scientific directions.
pronunciation:	(/plɑːŋk/)
image copyright:	Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1918/summary/>
date birth:	1858
date death:	1947
usual name:	Max Planck