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.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Robert Rogers that was just lovely. Thank you!

@zes3813

2 жыл бұрын

wrr, no nerx

@keybawd4023

2 жыл бұрын

I second that. The videos are some of the very best on the Internet.

@marktwain5232

Жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics I have just recently found you. This presentation is the best coverage of this tragic history anywhere. Absolutely spectacular! Brilliant work!

@joelwexler

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@patrickf.4440

2 жыл бұрын

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

@davidsharpness9990

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@blucheer8743

11 ай бұрын

Yes someone should add that to kuiper’s wiki very interesting fact about kuiper

@poek1e

11 ай бұрын

​@@patrickf.4440Great digging, you should totally add it along with the reference you found!

@terrycole472

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

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!

@malcolmlugg9843

2 жыл бұрын

Frisch also helped her "stroll" over the Dutch border and freedom

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!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you (and your friend) liked it

@jacksong6226

2 жыл бұрын

Wasnt expecting to see you here!

@DonaldJUnruh

2 жыл бұрын

Q

The way you craft these stories is amazing, I'm so glad i stumbled on your channel!

Didn't expect to cry from one of your videos. Go Max Planck, you did what you thought was best for science

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

His story is intense isn’t it?

@javierderivero9299

10 ай бұрын

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

Hi Kathy., absolute brilliant , the amount of work and research that you have done is beyond me , thanks a million

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!

@greggstrasser5791

Жыл бұрын

Was that pre or post-war?

@bennomomsen5554

Жыл бұрын

@@greggstrasser5791 The meeting was before the war - no idea when Planck wrote it on paper.

@joelwexler

Жыл бұрын

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.

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!

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 !

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I love the term “spherical understanding” so poetic. Also thanks for forgiving my awkward accent with German words. Cheers, Kathy from California

@homo_dumpiens2989

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Kathy_Loves_Physics Oh well, that makes two of us with bad accent , i am not German actually :D Cheers!

@davidsharpness9990

Жыл бұрын

I've snagged that poetic term for a chubby frog that mews like a kitten, and has over 20 million likes!😃

@homo_dumpiens2989

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsharpness9990 chubby frog that mews like a kitten sounds exactly like the topic with 20m like on KZread 😅

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.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! Greetings from California!

Thank you Kathy, this is not the time to forget history. Seems like we are repeating it. Especially, burning of the Reitchstag Building.

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

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.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I don’t think there are any KZread 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.

@joelwexler

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

Жыл бұрын

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).

Thankyou for taking the time to make these videos. Very interesting and educational.

Im so happy to have found your channel!! Thanks for all the awesomeness 😍😍

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!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

11 ай бұрын

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.

Your presentations of these historical events are awesome!

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

This is the first video and I know this channel will be binged watch heavily this week.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it.

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

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

QuantumRyft that is fabulous!

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!

This would make an amazing Netflix series. Best series of all time? Fantastic video. You are a great presenter. Amazing job.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I would love a TV series, anyone know a producer at PBS??

I burst into tears with all your single words. it was so impressive, I sincerely appreciate your time.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. In my mind if you discuss Nazis and you don’t feel like crying you did it wrong.

@jamarhatton

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kathy_Loves_Physics so true!

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.

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!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it definitely brings up the idea of the price of not standing up to injustice doesn't it?

@srijanpandey9185

Жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics obviously

@greggstrasser5791

Жыл бұрын

Trust the Science.

@joelwexler

Жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics You said this two years ago. Oy, what do you think now?

You are an amazing teacher. So glad I was directed toward your work. Thank you

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!

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.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you Ross for your kind words

@rosshoover6986

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics you are most graciously welcome, Kathy.

Great reveal !! Thank you. That period of history will always be mourned.

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

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jim. This was a stressful video to make but also strangely cathartic.

Thank you for such informative programs presented with so much fun and humility. I am indebted to you and the education you provide.

Thanks so much for your work, Kathy. I really enjoy your presentations.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, this one was a particularly emotionally hard one to do but I’m quite proud of it.

Dear Kathy thank you and for sharing. I'm very happy to come across to your clips of physics and history.

wonderful, just wonderful. Hope you get more sub's and recognition. Keep up the great work.

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you so much!

This video was really interesting, thanks for making it!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

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?

It isn't everyday you find such a valuable resource for history. Thank you.

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.

Love your work... Keep doing more

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

Will do and thanks

These videos are incredibly fascinating. Thank you so much!

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!

@criscrosxxx

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember the times of the ww2 ?

@joelwexler

Жыл бұрын

My professors in the late 70's gave us movies to watch, but I didn't learn anything like I do here.

Thanks Kathy! This channel show that the history of science is as exciting as the science itself.

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.

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.

@MrAlasoft

2 жыл бұрын

Intellectual evolution does not mean at all moral strength .. and that's why, imho, we are where we are, as a whole

@wilhelmtaylor9863

2 жыл бұрын

You might want to research Heisenberg a bit.

@greggstrasser5791

Жыл бұрын

@@MrAlasoft If you ever word a mask, you would have caved in. The wise man does not judge.

@louise_rose

9 ай бұрын

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" 😄😁

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

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 🇳🇴

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, studying the Nazis is traumatic specially when you see analogies.

@warvariuc

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@milantrcka121

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@musiqtee

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@musiqtee

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Great work , many thanks kathy💙

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome 🙏

Really amazed. Thanks keep the good work on. History of science of the period is an most important epoch.

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

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

A wonderful presentation. Thank you!

These videos are hot fire. Outstanding

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!!!)

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.

This flew by...Thank you!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Glad that you found these videos interesting and thank you for commenting on all three videos about Planck.

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.

Wow! That was sobering. Thank-you for all your research and this superb presentation.

Fascinating !!! .. from begining to end .. you are great lady !

I found you through Boing Boing. Great history and science lesson. Thank you

Excellent documentary. Love the footage of Max Planck which I had never before seen. Thank you for your work.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that startling- love that little video.

Well done! Thank you.

Thanks for all great meticulously done videos. Could you do something on Warburg, Göttingen?

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.

What a great story of this complicated, brilliant man. Love your history stories!

That lecture of him praising relativity was a straight badass move. Also, the first time I ever saw him speak was in this video.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t that amazing?

@marktwain5232

Жыл бұрын

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics And you are amazing!

Great video. Thank you!

Thanks so much for you work.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

Another excellent video from an incomparable presenter! 😊🎉❤

Oh, you are a treasure, Kathy. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.

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.

Loved this. Thank you.

What a wonderful storyteller you are Kathy, science and personalities mixed in together and explained, with some philosophy added with good nature!!!!

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.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@robertturner1308

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@acasualviewer5861

10 ай бұрын

take a history of science class

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.

Damn you!!!!.... I'm starting to enjoy history again! Great stuff, lady. I'm hooked.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry. 🤣

Great work! Thanks well!

Kathy madam, always my favourite teacher, Fusing science & history beautifully.

Fantastic!! Thank you 🙏

Thank you...excellent presentation.

This is wonderful. Thank you for doing this.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you liked it

Thank you for the great story but It was a big mistake that I had watched your video in public places like a cafe; I couldn't stop crying until the end; I just want to bless Dr.Planck's soul. Thanks again.

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry it took me so long to see this comment but I feel you. I wasn’t expecting to cause people to cry but Planck will do it to you.

Fascinating! Thank you.

Great work!!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

I'm actually crying! How extremely well produced this is. I salute you Kathy!

As someone who loves physics and history, this channel is amazing!

You help me understand the other side of great physicists! You brought them back to life!

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.

Kathy, amazing work! But.... the picture at 19:39 is not related to the Night of Broken Glass....

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing out my mistake sorry about that and now it’s too late for me to fix anything on the video. Shoot.

Absolutely riveting. I never knew this side of history. My sincere gratitude. Greetings from sunny Greece.

Excellent programme!

Another great video, thank you.

Was "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", by Richard Rhodes one of your source for this excellent video?

Change the way you look at things and things you look at will change + The most important decision of human beings is whether we believe we live in a hostile or friendly universe. These two quotes from Planck and Einstein guide my life. Your videos about Planck's life made me love this guidance even more, knowing how these two enormous human beings lived their lives. More than anything, how Planck lived a life that had just become an example of how I would like my life to be - living what I believe using my words and thoughts to make sense of humanity's decisions and fate! Thanks for your incredible videos and stories!! I loved Planck's trilogy! You are amazing!

@Kathy_Loves_Physics

7 ай бұрын

He really was delightful, wasn't he?