Max Planck Society - Provides information on the society, the Institutes, research, documentation and multimedia. German and English. Nobel Prize Organization: Max Planck - Personal life, works, and achivements of the man who was the father of quantum physics. Max Planck - Wikipedia article on this German physicist, the founder of the quantum theory. On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum - Article by Max Planck, published in Annalen der Physik in 1901. Max Planck - Information on an exhibition held in Berlin, Germany in 1997, biographical details, life, work and personality. German and English. The Nobel Prize in Physics, 1918 - Awarded to Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta. Includes a short biography and a transcript of the award speech.