"The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised Planck against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes." Planck replied that he did not wish to discover new things, but only to understand the known fundamentals of the field, and so began his studies in 1874 at the University of Munich." Actually funny when you realize that this man changed the field of physics entirely. Without him, believe it or not, Einstein would never have been able to explain E=hv and, thus, never have been able to discover the photoelectric effect...
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:14:12 +0000