Robert Williams Wood, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein front row at a session of The Physical Society in Berlin on July 28, 1931
Imagine the world’s best physicists sitting together at an event. Here, we see the three most famous physicists, Robert William Wood, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein, at an event in Berlin.
Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor who made pivotal contributions to the field of optics. Max Karl Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Albert Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity.