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Astronomycast, episode 218 from Monday, January 31, 2011.

Max Plunk

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Hi, Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, Fraser, how are you doing?

Good, I hope I got that right. You're the one who knows a little bit of German, right?

I know a little bit of German, and your pronunciation is way better than how we normally say it in the American Physics classroom where it becomes plain.

Max Plank, yeah.

Max Plank, okay, so either one, Max Plunk, Max Plank, we'll go with that.

All right, well, it's time for another action-packed double episode where we meet a man and his mission.

This time around is German physicist Max Plank Plunk, considered to be the father of quantum theory.

He was later granted a Nobel Prize for just that discovery.

So let's take a trip back just over 100 years to learn about the man who changed our understanding of the very small.

Max Plank, so where do you want to start with this one?

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