Max Planck vs the Nazis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2020
- Max Planck was tested by Hitler, how could he stand up for his friends Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and more? Did Planck do the right thing? Watch the video and decide for yourself.
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As a lifelong physics and history nerd, I hold your videos to be in a class by themselves. You combine excellent science education with fascinating and germain insights into the personalities of your subjects. These presentations provide a depth and richness about lives that are typically presented in one dimensional ways. And you have outdone yourself this time. Bravo! This is truly a great piece of work.
Robert Rogers that was just lovely. Thank you!
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I second that. The videos are some of the very best on the Internet.
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics I have just recently found you. This presentation is the best coverage of this tragic history anywhere. Absolutely spectacular! Brilliant work!
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics Speechless. It took me an hour to get through this. I pause for every picture, newspaper and book frame. Some hard to look at but impossible to look away.
Thank you so much for your perfect presentations.
You missed one of the coolest aspects of the raid that rescued Planck... One of the members of that team was a middle aged man named Gerard Kuiper. The father of modern planetary science... "Kuiper Belt" is named after this guy who risked everything to save an icon of science.
I had to look around for confirmation of this and finally found it in an old Scientific American article. I taught college astronomy for 27 years and did not know this about Kuiper. It is strange and a darn shame that Kuiper's Wikipedia entry not only neglects to mention his saving Planck but his military service as well. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Pat, in Chicago
Cool!
Yes someone should add that to kuiper’s wiki very interesting fact about kuiper
@@patrickf.4440Great digging, you should totally add it along with the reference you found!
@@patrickf.4440 : There are details in the NAS' Kuiper memoir, written by Dale Cruikshank. I've entered those into the talk page and put a preliminary note in the main text.
Thank you for all of your efforts regarding the history of Max Planck. Hearing you retell Lise Meitner’s and Otto Frisch’s famous stroll when they collectively realized that uranium atoms were fissioning and releasing tremendous amounts of energy. It is so sad that she did not receive a Nobel Prize for all of her brilliant work. She and Marie Curie are two of my heroes from the early days of nuclear physics and chemistry. Was so happy when they named a new element in her honor - Meitnerium.
Please keep your videos coming.
They’re truly informative and enjoyable!
Frisch also helped her "stroll" over the Dutch border and freedom
While in highschool and college I worked for a Holocaust survivor. The only reason he survived is that he had a talent for repairing radio and audio equipment. Much of the understanding I have of radio receiver technology is due to Gerhard Isaac's influence.
Didn't expect to cry from one of your videos. Go Max Planck, you did what you thought was best for science
His story is intense isn’t it?
Unfortunately not everything is science.....human beings are also important...I believe Planck was too nationalistic, and that is not science, I understand Einstein was upset, not during the nazis...but since WWI broke, Planck was supporting WWI
I had read Max Plancks memory protocol of his conversation with Hitler on behalf on Fritz Haber and I was fascinated by the buffoonish description Planck was providing of Hitler, especially the part that Hitler started hitting himself on his leg when he was getting enraged during the conversion. I wasn't aware about all the historical context so far, thanks a lot for putting this together in such a good presentation!
Was that pre or post-war?
@@greggstrasser5791 The meeting was before the war - no idea when Planck wrote it on paper.
Her research is so deep and she presents it so well. I'm bingeing on Kathy. Good thing I have a dog to pull me away.
Hi Kathy., absolute brilliant , the amount of work and research that you have done is beyond me , thanks a million
I just found your channel (thanks to a recommendation from a friend) and this video was absolutely riveting. I'll be binging more very soon!
I’m glad you (and your friend) liked it
Wasnt expecting to see you here!
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Being currently a Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute, I personally thank you for this excellent and accurate glimpse on modern history and the life of the father of quantum physics. I hope that people do understand and appreciate the amount of spherical understanding, reading and work that is put in making such a video. Thank you, Kathy.
Greetings from Leipzig !
Thank you! I love the term “spherical understanding” so poetic. Also thanks for forgiving my awkward accent with German words. Cheers, Kathy from California
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics Oh well, that makes two of us with bad accent , i am not German actually :D
Cheers!
I've snagged that poetic term for a chubby frog that mews like a kitten, and has over 20 million likes!😃
@@davidsharpness9990 chubby frog that mews like a kitten sounds exactly like the topic with 20m like on TH-cam 😅
as a german i have just discovered your videos and even though you slaughter most pronounciations it's completely irrelevant when looking at how informative these videos are for me, i don't need any german content after this even though obviously english is my second language this was very comprehensive even. i of course know most of the history but did not know much about the science side and happenings at the same time. thank you so much!
I’m so glad you liked it and were not too offended by my mispronunciations (I have a very hard time with remembering things that I hear and German is written like English but spoken so differently than English that I constantly end up with the wrong pronunciation. it’s not through lack of caring it’s because of the bad connection between my ear and my brain, I am sorry about that).
The way you craft these stories is amazing, I'm so glad i stumbled on your channel!
Kathy, I have read and seen enough to be familiar with the names and events. But the way you connect people and events together gives a completely new perspective on the science, the people involved, and politics at the given times, before, and beyond. This installment was the most powerful of all I have seen so far. Thank you!
Kathy. 3rd vid of yours I watch. Very, very well done, milady, widely presenting the different pov's of what must have been a momentous internal struggle for this great person in his seventies, under such severe circumstances
This was hard to watch; conflicting and heart-wrenching -- damned if you do, damned if you don't...
Excellent. Thanks!
BTW, I am subscribed
As a physics student, I find your youtube channel really intriguing. It makes me appreciates the subject that I've studied even more by listening to the history. And the way you tell the story is just... perfect. I really appreciate your work and wish I've found your channel sooner.
Thanks so much
You are the best! Thank you very much for such lucid views and lighthearted exposition on this dreadfull part of our collective history and Planck's life in particular! Greetings from Brasil!
Wow, thank you! Greetings from California!
Kathy, I think you should earn some prestigious award for the amazing video "history lessons" you produce.
This video in particular, by remembering the "teachings from Plank's late-stage courageous speeches" you help spreading/remembering a message that mankind should never forget.
Thank you so much. I don’t think there are any TH-cam awards and they’re probably for people who share videos of cats flushing the toilet! This video in particular was a very emotional one for me. Cheers, Kathy.
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics The other day on here, I saw a male Lab using a toilet, front feet on the floor. But he didn't put the seat up and failed to flush.
Outstanding voice and presentation! Thank you for making and sharing this.
I know that there were some mispronunciations in some of your videos, but easily... no happily... I overlook those because the body of your work is so outstanding and the way you tell these important stories is so pleasurable to consume. Bravo!
Thank you so much Beth for the compliment, and for the forgiveness. I have an audio processing issue, which makes it really hard for me to learn how to pronounce words that are new to me, but I don’t mean any disrespect.
WOW! Your talks (lectures?) are spell binding. Thank you for your insights into that horror of a time. I was born in January, 1943 - right in the middle of it. I have tried to understand this period from many sources. Your talks show a keen insight. Thank you
Once again, thank you kindly for your research and conclusions. Excellent work, professional and personal at the same time --- lovely. Watched all three again, almost a year later, and boy are they interesting! Congrats, Kathy!
Thankyou for taking the time to make these videos. Very interesting and educational.
Thank you Kathy, this is not the time to forget history. Seems like we are repeating it. Especially, burning of the Reitchstag Building.
Im so happy to have found your channel!! Thanks for all the awesomeness 😍😍
Your presentations of these historical events are awesome!
I burst into tears with all your single words. it was so impressive, I sincerely appreciate your time.
Thank you. In my mind if you discuss Nazis and you don’t feel like crying you did it wrong.
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics so true!
Nice! I have subbed and loved every vid from you!
I even did a Max Planck essay for my homework and your planck biography helped A LOT
QuantumRyft that is fabulous!
Kathy, you are great! This was truly an amazing bit of history from that time period. I have read a lot about the physicists of that era so your video really made it sink in. Thank you!
This is the first video and I know this channel will be binged watch heavily this week.
Glad you liked it.
You are an amazing teacher. So glad I was directed toward your work. Thank you
This would make an amazing Netflix series. Best series of all time?
Fantastic video. You are a great presenter. Amazing job.
Thank you! I would love a TV series, anyone know a producer at PBS??
It really makes me think about what is going on today. What people accept, what people don't question, and how to people just go along with. Thank you for this video, you more than earned my subscription!
Thanks, it definitely brings up the idea of the price of not standing up to injustice doesn't it?
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics obviously
Trust the Science.
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics You said this two years ago. Oy, what do you think now?
Thank you for such informative programs presented with so much fun and humility. I am indebted to you and the education you provide.
Extremely Difficult Decades.
All Leaders of this Period were Tested Like Never Before.
Numerous Leadership Failures occurred, So Planck, Einstein, Hahn, Meitner were Not Alone.
Thanks Kathy Tough Topic, Huge Topic.
RIP those that Lost Their Lives Through this Very Difficult Human Period.
Dear Kathy thank you and for sharing. I'm very happy to come across to your clips of physics and history.
Great reveal !! Thank you. That period of history will always be mourned.
Kathy you are filling a vast void in the science education of our institutions. Thank you so much for your enlightening and entertaining discussions on history and science. You make understanding these topics a delight. Many blessings coming your way, my dear. You give a vivacious, human meaning to equations that have long sought such earthly treatment.
Wow, thank you Ross for your kind words
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics you are most graciously welcome, Kathy.
wonderful, just wonderful. Hope you get more sub's and recognition. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for your work, Kathy. I really enjoy your presentations.
Thanks, this one was a particularly emotionally hard one to do but I’m quite proud of it.
Kathy,
Thank you!!!
This is more accurate history than I have ever learned regarding the Nazi/Jewish/Science political upheaval and tragedy.
You deserve an award for digging for and exposing the truth.
Your ability to tie the science with the history with the political currents of the time is phenomenal.
You are a treasure!
Most treasured.
Love,
Jim Wingert
Jupiter, FL
Thank you Jim. This was a stressful video to make but also strangely cathartic.
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you so much!
It isn't everyday you find such a valuable resource for history. Thank you.
These videos are incredibly fascinating. Thank you so much!
I just found your channel and find it captivating. I have always loved history and science, your enthusiastic and joyful exposition is riveting. Thank you for your efforts. One question remains for me, who are you? What is your background, how did you come to create your channel?
YOUR HISTORY RESEARCH! Amazing....Thank you.. I wanted to hug you at 26:46 '' I think of that quote a lot..." . Thank you for these amazing details. These stories need told.
This video was really interesting, thanks for making it!
You are welcome
Thanks Kathy! This channel show that the history of science is as exciting as the science itself.
Love your work... Keep doing more
Will do and thanks
Im down a rabbithole of all your videos, wish I found this sooner
This has answered several questions for me, even after reading hours worth of Wikipedia pages. Thank you.
It doesn't make sense that the nazis did not develop a fission bomb before America since fission was discovered in Germany by Meitner and Hahn took credit for it. Planck is one of my favorite inventors along with Newton and Einstein.
Really amazed. Thanks keep the good work on. History of science of the period is an most important epoch.
Professor Kathy, your treating of physics and its history is astonishing, please continue with the good job, i am using them in my physics classes
Thank you dear lady. For you have cleared up so much going on with physics and politics during that period of time.
Your videos are very important, well done
Great work , many thanks kathy💙
You are welcome 🙏
Wow! That was sobering. Thank-you for all your research and this superb presentation.
Was not aware of this extraordinary history. I remember from my electrical engineering course, five decades ago, Planck’s constant - 6.63* ten raised to minus thirty four Joule-Hertz.
The physicists active in 20th century, who had witnessed two wars and upheavals in Europe made huge contribution to science that changed the world.
You have delivered this history-capsule very well.
Another excellent video from an incomparable presenter! 😊🎉❤
A wonderful presentation. Thank you!
Oh, you are a treasure, Kathy. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
The absolutely amazing scientific advancements of people like Schrödinger, Heisenberg and Planck will endure forever. We are all subject to deep human failures of courage and decency and that includes those with brilliant minds. Thanks, Kathy, for your historical review of the intersection of science and the dark side of our civilization.
Intellectual evolution does not mean at all moral strength .. and that's why, imho, we are where we are, as a whole
You might want to research Heisenberg a bit.
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If you ever word a mask, you would have caved in.
The wise man does not judge.
The FBI had a rich file on Albert Einstein, launched way before WW2 - he was looked on with suspicion by many on the right-wing half of the political spectrum in the USA because of his pacifism and generally anti-hierarchical outlook. The file can be read at the FBI's web site - I remember leafing through it more than a decade ago and finding this interesting quote out of an angry report filed in from a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution: "Einstein's theory of General Relativity contends that all opinions and statements have only relative truth value - EXCEPT EINSTEIN'S" 😄😁
I am 85 years old and hold degrees in physics... I am learning so much that I did not know from this series... These videos were more valuable than all those years of science education... To know about l the people is so important... Thank you Kathy!
Do you remember the times of the ww2 ?
My professors in the late 70's gave us movies to watch, but I didn't learn anything like I do here.
I found you through Boing Boing. Great history and science lesson. Thank you
These are so good, since childhood, I've been a reader of history of both WW2 & physics, my mother's brother was an USAF Col. w/ Phd in EE from U Neb, he worked for DIA & attended 8 nuclear tests (and I was treated w/ cobalt in elementary school for a tumor in my head) etc. hence, these videos are treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many thanks!!!! (Frischission!!!)
A little beside the greatly told story - I can’t rid myself from the feeling that we are in a somewhat analogous time frame today. Other countries, regions and people, but as humans we are increasingly polarized now, than just ten or twenty years ago. More specifically, the ‘08 crisis, the pandemic coupled with increasing social differences, troubled logistics and inflation, racial slur - How are our scientists feeling around the climate challenges and an economy favorable to giant financial powers? The top series on Netflix depicts just that. Are we in a 1918 to 1938 timeframe now? Greetings from 🇳🇴
Yeah, studying the Nazis is traumatic specially when you see analogies.
I think this is the 3rd World War. The previous wars were between states on physical level. Now the war is between ordinary people for the ideologies.
I was just thinking about some contemporary parallels within. I am old enough to have seen and remember the cold war and "socialism" goings-on in eastern Europe. Very disturbing.
@@milantrcka121 Yep, I’m 56 myself. Point is, the “socialism” of the Soviet influenced world was a totalitarian non-democratic model - even branding itself as communism. We in the West (myself included) fell for the heavy propaganda, and learned to deeply hate the words themselves. We didn’t learn much about what socialism really means. Of course life was hard for so many ordinary people in Eastern Europe. We should remember that any societal model based on pure power without any democratic influence, is neither liberalism nor socialism - just dictatorship with a fancy name. Taken too far, any -ism destroys society from within.
@@demef758 Empirical insights stand for what they are. Our ability to think critically around those is a personal responsibility. Therein lie the opportunity to reveal other and unacceptable motives behind politics and macroeconomy. So, I agree that corporate powers greenwash for profit, but not with your general standpoint. Harshness will alienate the opposing power, so “being morally right” won’t cut it, just empower hostility.
LOVE your videos Kathy, i would like to know if you have some literature about the history of physics, that you recomend! Keep doing your amazing work
Excellent documentary. Love the footage of Max Planck which I had never before seen. Thank you for your work.
Isn’t that startling- love that little video.
These videos are hot fire. Outstanding
Fascinating !!! .. from begining to end .. you are great lady !
Thanks for all great meticulously done videos. Could you do something on Warburg, Göttingen?
Thank you for the depth of precision and the balance of the ethical and moral tensions of those tragic years as they washed over humanity in the contexts of such exceptional intellects engulfed in waves of human chaos.
What a great story of this complicated, brilliant man. Love your history stories!
What a wonderful storyteller you are Kathy, science and personalities mixed in together and explained, with some philosophy added with good nature!!!!
Great video. Thank you!
That lecture of him praising relativity was a straight badass move. Also, the first time I ever saw him speak was in this video.
Wasn’t that amazing?
@@Kathy_Loves_Physics And you are amazing!
Thanks so much for you work.
You are welcome.
This flew by...Thank you!
Glad that you found these videos interesting and thank you for commenting on all three videos about Planck.
Well done! Thank you.
I'm actually crying! How extremely well produced this is. I salute you Kathy!
I am currently taking a college chemistry class but I know so little of the history of the scientists as that is not the focus of most college Chem classes. Your videos are very wonderful as they provide historical context and humanity to the formulas and famous names. The Holocaust is very sad and terrible but I like that you talked about it and did so very appropriately. Loved your analysis as you showed the good and the bad for Plank. Really like your content.
So glad you have enjoyed my videos. Wish I had more chemistry content (you might like my video on spectroscopy) but I mostly focus on physics as that is my field.
BasementEngineer. Are you serious? You need forensics or you won’t believe in the systematic genocide of an entire people? Do you need so see the bones of Galileo to believe the Earth revolves around the sun too? Moronic comment. Shame on you.
take a history of science class
Kathy madam, always my favourite teacher, Fusing science & history beautifully.
Damn you!!!!.... I'm starting to enjoy history again! Great stuff, lady. I'm hooked.
I’m sorry. 🤣
As a stamp collector I bought at auction a lot which contained a small envelop with a black border addressed to Robert Millikan at Caltech in Pasadena and franked with a common German stamp of the 1940s. The return address on the back said Planck...Gottingen and the timestamp was a week or so after Max Planck's death. So it was evidently the mourning cover that contained the notice of Planck's death. I called the archivist at Caltech and he said he had the notice that was enclosed in the envelop and I wound up donating it to Caltech along with several other covers addressed to Millikan.
Hi Kathy,
I have watched a number of your videos over time and find many of them fascinating. Especially many of your ones on electricity and other sciences.
This one, especially, struck a chord as my Grandmother, Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, was a student of Einstein at Berlin University as well as corresponding with him, Max von Laue, Max Plank and lise Meitner until their deaths. I have in my posession a fair bit of correspondence between each of them and her, including ones from Einsten and von Laue, congratulating her on my birth in 1952. Most I have copies of, but the one from Einstein I have the original letter. Most of the other originals were delivered to the Jewish Museum in Israel by my mother in the '90s. after my grandmother's death. Unfortunately, not all the letters survive as in her last years she decided to destroy some of them due to their perceived political connotations. She also published a book in 1980 entitled "Reality and Scientific Truth : Discussions with Einstein, von Laue, and Planck"
My grandparents and mother (who was 15 at the time, left Germany in 1937), arriving in Australia in 1938. My Grandfather was Jewish and my Grandmother Lutheren. They managed to leave with all their possessions in two liftvans, basically containers but made of wood, some of which I have to this day, and ended up in Sydney, Australia.
You help me understand the other side of great physicists!
You brought them back to life!
Loved this. Thank you.
Absolutely riveting. I never knew this side of history. My sincere gratitude.
Greetings from sunny Greece.
Great work! Thanks well!
Thank you...excellent presentation.
This is wonderful. Thank you for doing this.
I’m so glad you liked it
Thanks 🙏
Insightful, a lot to learn from humanity from the history!
Thank you so much. You were awfully kind to Haber by presenting him as a human with feelings etc. and I was a little worried until you took a moment to be clear about his work. Excellent channel.
As someone who loves physics and history, this channel is amazing!
Your resolute honesty and integrity are mightly refreshing and encouraging in the face of today commonly fractious and hotile discourse. Bravo.
Another great episode. Both my Gpa’s fought against the Germans, and then I went and married one. Her family was split up by the Wall. I have been lucky to hear so many stories from both sides and visit POW camps where my grandfathers waited out the war.
Lady: I am addicted to your very informative videos. I got to tell You this one really struck a chord, with emmotion. It was very satisfying that the Institute was renamed with the name of a scientist that was a creator and inspiration to so many scientista. Max Planck was not perfect, but he was a SCIENTIST
Totally engaging account if this difficult and complex time.
BTW is there is a small mistake. Lise Meitner is misspelt at eg 14.00?
Wonderful! What a personality you have.
Hind sight is always so clear. We must ask ourselves what we would have done. Thanks for digging up some amazing history, so we can see the whole picture.
Great work!!
Thanks
Thank you. This video is very important for us Germans as it depicts the horror and the opportunities (missed and not) is clearheaded sight.