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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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