Max Planck
1858 – 1947 German physicist
The founder of quantum theory.
- Religion
- A lifelong Protestant who served as a church elder and spoke of religion and science as compatible.
- Affiliations
- President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, later renamed for him. No secret society.
Planck discovered that energy comes in discrete packets, or quanta, opening the quantum revolution in physics. His constant is one of the fundamental numbers of nature. He led German science through dark times and lost a son to the Nazis for resisting Hitler.