| 1858 |
born April 23 |
| 1867 |
moved with family to Munich and attended school |
| 1874 |
entered University of Munich |
| 1877 |
transferred to University of Berlin |
| 1879 |
received doctorate with thesis on second law of
thermodynamics |
| 1880 |
appointed professor of University of Munich and
taught there until 1885 |
| 1885 |
appointed to a
chair in Kiel until 1889, married Marie Merck (two sons, twin daughters) |
| 1889 |
chair of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin
until he retired in 1927 |
| 1894 |
elected to Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| 1897 |
published Thermodynamik |
| 1900 |
announced Planck's radiation formula |
| 1906 |
published Theory of heat radiation |
| 1909 |
first wife died, remarried Marga von Hösslin |
| 1912 |
Secretary of the Mathematics and Natural Science Section of
the Prussian Academy of Sciences until 1943 |
| 1918 |
received the Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 1926 |
elected to Foreign Membership of the Royal Society |
| 1927 |
retired |
| 1928 |
awarded the Society's Copley Medal |
| 1930 |
president of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Gesellschaft, the main
German research organization until 1937 |
| 1947 |
died on October 4 |
