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The Max Planck Society has organized a very informative website with a collaboration of the late 1800’s, early 1900’s physicist. The majority of the site works as a guide into the life of Planck, as there is quite an in depth biography present. Some of the most interesting facts I ran across while perusing the //Life// section was that during World War II, Planck’s son Erwin was arrested after his involvement in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, this occurring just after Planck’s house was destroyed in a bombing, resulting in the loss of all his scientific journals and notes.

 Max Planck’s political standpoint in terms of the scientific community became very eminent as I progressed through the readings. From 1912 until 1938, Max Planck served as secretary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. It was thought that this position was one of the, “ most powerful offices in science policy that a scientist could assume without changing over completely to government service.” It goes without saying that in this seat Planck’s influence on the scientific community was quite significant. Also, he held the office of Presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences from 1930 through 1937, serving temporarily in 1945 serving a transition period at the age of 87. Indeed Planck’s voice as a prominent member of the scientific community undoubtedly united nations in pursuit of universal understanding

 All in the entire site is a solid resource for information regarding Max Planck’s Life. There’s not too much personal view on the late physicist, but that seems to not have been the aim of the website. Instead this well organized site sticks mainly to the facts and succeeds in enlightening the general public on the life and works of Karl Ernst Ludwig Max Planck.