Max Planck

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

Professor at Berlin University

In Berlin Planck joined the local Physical Society: later he wrote about this time: "In those days I was essentially the only Theoretical physicist there, whence things were not so easy for me, because I started mentioning entropy, but this was not quite fashionable, since it was regarded as a mathematical spook". Thanks to his initiative the society merged in 1898 to form the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG); from 1905 to 1909 Planck was the president of the DPG.

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1905 - 1909

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Planck started a six-semestre course of lectures on Theoretical Physics, "dry, somewhat impersonal" according to Lise Meitner, "using no notes, never making mistakes, never faltering; the best lecturer I ever heard" according to an English participant, James R. Partington, who continues: "There were always many standing around the room. As the lecture-room was well heated and rather close, some of the listeners would from time to time drop to the floor, but this did not disturb the lecture". He did not establish an actual "school", the number of his graduate students was only about 20 altogether, among them the following:

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:Max Abraham 1897 (1875 - 1922)

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:Moritz Schlick 1904 (1882 - 1936)

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:Walther Meißner 1906 (1882 - 1974)

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:Max von Laue 1906 (1879 - 1960)

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:Fritz Reiche 1907 (1883 - 1960)

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:Walter Schottky 1912 (1886 - 1976)

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:Walther Bothe 1914 (1891 - 1957)

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