普朗克英文简介

Awarded Nobel prize
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was a mathematician and philosopher, once said: “ The nature world would not change abruptly. Discontinuousness was out of step with science.” What Leibniz said confused Planck. So Planck told his son that what he had discovered would either be a standing joke or may be one of the greatest discoveries in physics since Newton. Eighteen years later, Planck was awarded Nobel prize in physics because of his putting forward energy quantum.
The Quantization of Energy
In order to get a conclusion which was consistent with the experiment, Planck made a lot of attempts and had a fierce ideological struggle （思想斗争） . Finally he had to compromise with himself and admitted that: some laws of microcosm （微观世界） might look very strange in the shoes of macrocosm （ 宏 观 世 界 ） . In 1900, he made a crazy assumption: the energy of microscopic particle（微 观粒子） can only be integer times （整数倍） of a minimum quantity. He called this quantity as energy quantum（能量 子）which couldn’t be divided anymore. Depending on the assumption of energy quantum, Planck derived（推导出） the formula. So consistent was it with the results that nobody could agree more.
University
In 1874, Planck was admitted in University of Munich. He had a gift for music and a command of piano, pipe organ（管风琴） and violoncello（大提琴）. He even composed（作曲） for several songs and a light opera. But he didn’t choose the music major. Instead, he decided to major in physics.
As a physicist, nothing could be more inspiring than the fact that his own theory was confirmed by the experiment. However, Planck was in a dilemma. In a long period of time in history, not only the physics domain but also the science and philosophy domain all held the view that all natural progresses were continuous.
Planck in 1878
A physics professor named Philipp von Jolly once tried to persuade Planck not to learn physics. He said: “Everything about this science had been studied, and only some less important blanks need to be filled.” However, Planck was determined. He said: “I’m not supposed to find a new continent of physics. The only thing I want to do is to comprehend the fundamental knowledge or maybe I can make it further.”
black body radiation
Black body radiation
Normal objects will absorb, reflect and radiate （ 辐 射 ） electromagnetic wave（电磁波）. As a black body, it can absorb and radiate the wave, but it reflects nothing. When scientists in that time researched on the thermal radiation, they paid special attention to the principle of black body radiation. It was very easy for scientists to draw a diagram to show that the intensity （ 强 度 ） of radiation had a certain relationship with temperature and wavelength.
Physicists are always striving to use the existing knowledge to explain phenomena and principles which are newly found. So a German physicist named Wien （ 维 恩 ） and a British physicist named Rayleigh （ 瑞 利 ） successively （ 相 继 地 ） put forward the theoretical formula which could calculate the intensity of radiation according to the wavelength. But they both got a rebuff（碰钉子）.
Planck started his physics study at University of Munich in 1874. During his whole scientific career, he only conducted several experiments with Jolly. Before long, he diverted his attention from experiments to theoretical physics. In 1877, he transferred to another school in Berlin. There he studied under Hermann von Helmholtz, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Karl Weierstrass. When it came to Hermann, Planck once said: “He prepares nothing before class and always makes some mistakes while calculating so that students find it boring to attend his class.” As to Gustav, he said: “He teaches carefully, but his class is very tedious （冗长的）.” Even so, Planck still developed a sincere friendship with Hermann. Under the influence of Hermann, who was the founder of thermodynamics （热力学）, Planck regarded thermodynamics as his working field.
Planck in 1874
Planck spent his first several years of childhood at Kiel. When he was 9 years old, in 1867, his family moved to Munich where he was inspired by a mathematician named Oskar von Miller. With the help of Miller, he developed his interest in mathematics and physics. What’s more, Planck learned his first physical principle: energy conservation （能量守恒） . And it was his first time that he had Βιβλιοθήκη Baiduade acquaintance with physics.
（量子力学）
Won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1918.
Childhood
In 1858, Planck was born in a conventional family which had been well educated. He had six brothers and sisters, four of whom was given birth to by his mother. And another two were left by his father’s former wife.
Hermann
Gustav
Karl
After graduation



In 1878, he passed the exam for teacher certification. In 1880, he earned his qualification of teaching by a thesis. Even so, he was not attached importance to by the physics domain. But Planck continued his work in thermodynamics. In 1885, he was employed as a physics professor to University of Kiel. When he was at Kiel, Planck had started the further research about atom. In 1890, he started to analyzed an experiment called
The Quantization of Energy
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Born at Stein Hall in Germany, he was recognized as a famous physicist. An important founder of quantum mechanics.