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Planck - Driven by Vision, Broken by War (Hardcover)
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Planck - Driven by Vision, Broken by War (Hardcover)
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Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the
radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by
Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics."
Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and
his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter
and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known,
especially in the United States. A German physicist working during
the first half of the twentieth century, his library, personal
journals, notebooks, and letters were all destroyed with his home
in World War II. What remains, other than his contributions to
science, are handwritten letters in German shorthand, and tributes
from other scientists of the time, including his close friend
Albert Einstein. In Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War,
Brandon R. Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his
family, and his contemporaries-with many passages appearing in
English for the first time-to create a portrait of a groundbreaking
physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his
adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an
influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government.
During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and
battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while
performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi
bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason related to a
bombing, Planck tried to use his standing as a German "national
treasure," and wrote direct letters to Hitler to spare his son's
life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far
more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within
the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his
life. The story of a brilliant man living in a dangerous time,
Brandon Brown gives Max Planck his rightful place in the history of
science, and shows how war-torn Germany deeply impacted his life
and work.
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