How did Max Planck help Albert Einstein’s early scientific work gain attention?

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Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression. — Albert Einstein Albert Einstein developed the special and general theory of relativity, which recast gravity as a bending in space-time.

Max Planck played a crucial role in the early recognition of Albert Einstein’s work by becoming the first prominent physicist to champion Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which was published in 1905.12

Beyond his early advocacy for relativity, Planck actively supported Einstein’s career by helping to bring him to Berlin in 1914, where he secured a position for him alongside other leading scientists. Furthermore, Planck and Einstein were among the prominent physicists who attended the first Solvay Conference in 1911, an event that helped stimulate broader scientific support for the quantum theory that both men were instrumental in developing.23