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Watercolor Portrait of Max Planck

  • 1967

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Watercolor portrait of Max Planck (1858-1947). Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck deduced the relationship between the energy and frequency of radiation, E=hv, where h is a universal constant, now called Planck’s constant. Planck published this derivation in a 1900 paper, which was based on the revolutionary idea that the energy emitted by a resonator could only take on discrete values.

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Gift of Christopher Egolf.
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  • 11 cm W x 14.5 cm H
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  • (Image border) "Heute habe ich eine entdeckung gemacht die ist so wichtig wie die von newton (Today I made a discovery that is as important as Newton's)"
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  • Estate of Christopher Egolf
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  • Box Small Collections

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Egolf, Christopher. “Watercolor Portrait of Max Planck,” 1967. Box Small Collections. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/o4xisuh.

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