Sanity

     Max Plank is a German scientist born in 1858.  He is known for his quantum theory, which changed the world’s understanding of atomic and subatomic processes (Stuewer).  According to Roger Stuewer, in 1918 Planck won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work with the quantum theory.  He explains that Planck’s work was cut short due to the rise of the totalitarian dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler.  After Hitler's rise, Planck was forced to hault his studies and wait out the storm, in which his home was actually destroyed by a bombing run (Nobelprize.org).  According to Nobelprize.org, Planck’s accomplishments were slow to be recognized, but with the help of Albert Einstein who had used the quantum theory in his studies, Planck’s theory became widely respected.  Furthermore, Einstein used Planck's work with his explanation of the photoelectric effect, where "Planck's constant" plays a big role.  Max Planck had found that "energy emitted by a resonator could only take on discrete values or quanta" and this led to the development of a formula hv, where h is a universal constant and v is a frequency (Nobelprize.org).