Max Planck, Nobel Prize winner in Physics: “He who has gone so far as to stop being confused, has also stopped working”

Max Planck revolutionized physics with quantum theory and championed doubt as the driving force of scientific progress.
Max Planck Society

Dark matter: Detection with sugar?

A team at the Max Planck Institute for Physics has conducted the first experiment using sugar as a detector material for dark matter. The scientists have found that sugar is a suitable material for ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2944: Max Planck’s Triumphs and Tragedies

Episode: 2944 The Father of Quantum Theory, The Perseverance of a Scientist Facing Multiple Tragedies. Today, a scientist’s triumphs and tragedies.
The Atlantic

From Plato to Max Planck: The Philosophical Problems of Atomic Physics

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...