Max Planck, the unluckiest physicist ever.

Max Planck, the German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He is the Planck's constant guy.

He lived what could arguably be called as one of the most miserable personal and family life.


"His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War. He also had twin daughters whom he adored. One died giving birth. The surviving twin went to look after the baby and fell in love with her sister's husband. They married and two years later she died in childbirth. In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he lost everything -- papers, diaries, a lifetime of accumulations. The following year his surviving son was caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and executed."