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his father was a law professor in Kiel and Munich ; and his paternal uncle was a judge . Max Planck 's signature at ten years of age. Planck was born in Kiel , Holstein , to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst

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His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology , the first post-Newtonian expansion , the explanation of the perihelion precession of Mercury , the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity ( gravitational

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joined Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University and he adapted Rutherford's nuclear structure to Max Planck 's quantum theory and so obtained a theory of atomic structure which, with later improvements, mainly as a result of Heisenberg's concepts, remains valid to this day. On the basis

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Hendrik Lorentz was born in Arnhem , Gelderland (The Netherlands), the son of Gerrit Frederik Lorentz (1822 – 1893), a well-off nurseryman, and Geertruida van Ginkel (1826 – 1861). In 1862, after his mother's death, his father married Luberta Hupkes. From 1866-1869 he attended the newly

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Bragg was born at Westward near Wigton , Cumberland , the son of Robert John Bragg, a merchant marine officer and farmer, and his wife Mary née Wood, a clergyman's daughter. When Bragg was seven years old, his mother died, and he was raised by his uncle, also named William Bragg, at Market

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of Munich (LMU). At Göttingen, he was greatly influenced by the physicists Woldemar Voigt and Max Abraham and the mathematician David Hilbert . After only one semester at Munich, he went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin in 1902. There, he studied under Max Planck , who

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Michelson was born in Strzelno , Provinz Posen in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Poland ) into a Jewish family. [ 1 ] He moved to the United States with his parents in 1855, when he was two years old. He grew up in the rough mining towns of Murphy's Camp , California and Virginia City, Nevada

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Sir James Chadwick CH FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron . Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 Research at Cambridge 2.2 Liverpool 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

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Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson , OM , FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate . He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes , and the invention of the mass spectrometer . Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper. After his father died in 1873, his family moved to Manchester . He was educated at Owen's College , studying biology with the intent to become a physician . He then went to