Max Planck transformed physics while his own world fell apart.
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Guest appearance by Professor Brandon R. Brown. Check out his biography, Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War https://bookshop.org/p/books/planck-driven-by-vision-broken-by-war-professor-of-physics-brandon-r-brown/6b5b567a133e01ac?ean=9780190219475&bkshp-astro=t
Chapters:
0:00 Unlocking the Big Bang Mystery
0:30 Pleading for His Son’s Life
1:04 Black Body Radiation
1:44 The Quantum Revolution
2:28 Einstein and the Birth of the Photon
2:50 Planck Discovers Einstein
3:31 The Physics Lesson Planck Never Forgot
4:01 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
5:52 Struggling to Get Noticed
5:39 Willing to Change His Mind
6:22 Planck’s Family Tragedies
7:32 Einstein and Planck’s Divide
7:49 Confronting Hitler
9:25 The Nazis Come for His Son
10:17 The Scientist Who Lost Everything
11:01 Max Planck’s Legacy
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Humboldt University lecture room photo by Matthias Heyde: https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/events/room-allocation/invalidenstrasse-42
Kaiser Wilhelm Society: Fridolin freudenfett (Peter Kuley), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Plötzensee Prison in Berlin: Ahle, Fischer & Co. Bau GmbH, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Planck grave: Solafide, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Taiwan airport: Meutnake Ah ManHO, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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