Max Planck has always fascinated me. Planck is considered the father of Quantum Theory and received a Nobel Prize for his work in this area in 1918. Einstein piggybacked on some of Planck’s ideas when he published his famous 1905 paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. Einstein maybe most famous for relativity and E=MC2, but it was for his explanation of the Photoelectric Effect that earned him a Noble Prize in 1921, not relativity. Relativity wasn’t easy to accept.
I plan to create a piece of media to use in my AP Physics class either explaining the Photoelectric Effect or some of the history of what was going on in physics at this exciting time. Either way, I plan to use the Planck Photo.
Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center. File history in de wikipedia