Max Planck

:This article is about Planck, the German physicist. For the proposed European Space Agency artificial satellite, see "Planck (satellite)".

Academic career

With the completion of his habilitation thesis, Planck became an unpaid private lecturer in Munich, waiting until he would be offered an academic position. Although he was initially ignored by the academic community, he furthered his work on the field of heat theory and discovered one after the other the same thermodynamical formalism as Gibbs without realizing it. Clausius's ideas on entropy occupied a central role in his work.

Related Topics:
Gibbs - Entropy

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In April 1885 the University of Kiel appointed Planck an associate professor of theoretical physics. Further work on entropy and its treatment, especially as applied in physical chemistry, followed. He proposed a thermodynamic basis for Arrhenius's theory of electrolytic dissociation.

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1885 - University of Kiel - Arrhenius's - Dissociation

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Within four years he was named the successor to Kirchhoff's position in Berlin - presumably thanks to Helmholtz's intercession - and by 1892 became a full professor. In 1907 Planck was appointed to Boltzmann's position in Vienna, but turned it down to stay in Berlin. He retired on January 10, 1926, and the successor to his position was Erwin Schrödinger.

Related Topics:
1892 - 1907 - Boltzmann's - Vienna - January 10 - 1926 - Erwin Schrödinger

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