German scientist and Politician who established the physics of vacuums and discovered an experimental method for clearly demonstrating electrostatic repulsion.
He studied mathematics, physics, and fortification engineering at the Academia Julia and the universities of Jena and Leyden.
The Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg is named after him.
He was born into a patrician family in Magdeburg, Germany.
Like him, Max Planck was a German scientist.
