# Max Planck German theoretical physicist who introduced Energy Quantization in 1900 to resolve the blackbody radiation problem, founding [[Quantum Mechanics]] almost against his will — he regarded the quantum hypothesis as a mathematical device and spent years trying to eliminate it. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1918. Planck remained in Germany through the Nazi period, using his institutional standing to protest the dismissal of Jewish scientists with limited effect; his son Erwin was executed in 1945 for involvement in the plot against Hitler. His remark that science advances one funeral at a time is quoted constantly and was, in the case of The Quantum Revolution, substantially about himself.