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The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (abbreviated MPG, Max Planck
Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
 Society for the Advancement of Science in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
) is an independent non-profit association of German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 research institute
Research institute

A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research....
s funded by the federal and state governments.

The nearly 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society conduct basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.






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The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (abbreviated MPG, Max Planck
Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
 Society for the Advancement of Science in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
) is an independent non-profit association of German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 research institute
Research institute

A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research....
s funded by the federal and state governments.

The nearly 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society conduct basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. They have a total staff of approx. 13,000 permanent employees, including 4,700 scientists, plus around 11,000 non-tenured scientists and guests. Their budget for 2006 was about 1.4 billion euro
Euro

The euro is the official currency of 16 out of 27 European Union member state of the European Union . The states, known collectively as the Eurozone are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain....
, with 84% from state and federal funds. The Max Planck Institutes focus on excellence in research, with 17 Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
s awarded to their scientists since 1948, and are generally regarded as the foremost basic research organization in Germany.

Other notable networks of publicly funded research institutes in Germany are the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, performing applied research with a focus on industrial collaborations, the Helmholtz-Gesellschaft, a network of the national laboratories in Germany, and the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

The Leibniz-Gemeinschaft is a union of German research institutes from various branches of study.In 2005, 84 non-universitary research institutes and service device for science belong to the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft....
, a loose network of institutes performing basic to applied research.

Background and Reputation

The Max Planck Society was founded by Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age"....
 in Göttingen
Göttingen

G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
 after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 in 1948 as the successor organization to the Prussian Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, which was established in 1911 as a non-governmental research organization named for the then German emperor and presided by famous scientists like Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
. The MPG has been named in honor of Max Planck
Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
, the German physicist responsible for the theoretical understanding of blackbody radiation and last president of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft.

The Max Planck Society has a world-leading reputation as a science & technology research organization. In 2006, the Times Higher Education Supplement rankings of non-university research institutions (based on international peer review by academics) placed the Max Planck Society as No.1 in the world for science research, and No.3 in technology research (behind AT&T
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 and the Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy's oldest and largest science and engineering research United States Department of Energy National Labs and is the largest in size in the Midwest ....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
).

The domain mpg.de attracted at least 1.7 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com
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 study.

List of presidents of the MPG

  • Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age"....
     (1948-1960)
  • Adolf Butenandt
    Adolf Butenandt

    Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a Germany biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He was initially forced by the Nazi government to decline the award, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II....
     (1960-1972)
  • Reimar Lüst
    Reimar Lüst

    Reimar L?st is a Germany astrophysicist. He was the president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 1972 to 1984. He has received the Bundesverdienstkreuz....
     (1972-1984)
  • Heinz Staab (1984-1990)
  • Hans F. Zacher (1990-1996)
  • Hubert Markl
    Hubert Markl

    Hubert Markl is a Germany biologist who most notably served as President of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002....
     (1996-2002)
  • Peter Gruss
    Peter Gruss

    Peter Gruss is a Germany developmental biologist and the current president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft . In 1994, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research....
     (since 2002)


Organization

Mpg Administration Building Munich May 2006
The Max Planck Society is formally an eingetragener Verein, a registered association with the institute directors as scientific members having equal voting rights. The society has its registered seat in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, while the administrative headquarters are located in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
. In 2002 the cell biologist Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss

Peter Gruss is a Germany developmental biologist and the current president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft . In 1994, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research....
 assumed assumed the office of President of the MPG.

Funding is provided predominantly from federal and state sources, but also from research and license fees and donations. One of the larger donations from the Duke of Bavaria in 1967 was the castle Schloss Ringberg
Schloss Ringberg

Schloss Ringberg is located in the Bavarian Alps, 50 km south of Munich, on a foothill overlooking the Tegernsee. Not open to the general public, it is a property of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is used for conferences....
 near Kreuth
Kreuth

Kreuth is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany....
 in Bavaria
Bavaria

Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
. The castle passed to the Max Planck Society after the death of the duke in 1973 and is now used for conferences.

Max Planck Institutes and Research Groups

The Max Planck Society consists of nearly 80 research institutes. In addition, the society funds a number of Max Planck Research Groups (MPRG) and International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS). The purpose of establishing independent research groups at various universities is to strengthen the required networking between universities and institutes of the Max Planck Society.

The research units are located all over Germany and in other European countries. The society is currently planning its first non-European centre, with an institute on the Jupiter campus of Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public university, coeducational, research university located in Boca Raton, Florida, United States....
 to focus on bioimaging.

The Max Planck Institutes operate independently from, though in close cooperation with, the universities, and focus on innovative research which does not fit into the university structure due to their interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity

In academia, pedagogy, physical sciences, earth sciences, human sciences and social sciences in general, an 'interdisciplinary field' is a term of art in the teaching professions, whereas the terms 'multidisciplinary field' or have become the hallmark of many modern technical professions which must cross traditional academic boun...
 or transdisciplinary
Transdisciplinarity

OverviewIn scientific contexts the term 'transdisciplinarity' is used in various ways. In the German speaking countries the term is most often used for integrative forms of research ....
 nature or which require resources that cannot be met by the state universities.

Internally, Max Planck Institutes are organized into research departments headed by directors such that each MPI has several directors, a position roughly comparable to anything from full professor to department head at a university.

Currently, following institutes and research groups exist:

  • Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing
    Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing

    The Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing is located in the building of the Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne in K?ln, Germany. The institute was founded in 2008 and is being developed until 2012....
    , Köln
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft network....
    , Leipzig
    Leipzig

    Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

    The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is located in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 1999, and moved into new buildings 2001....
    , Halle/Saale
  • Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History
    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History

    The Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History is located in Rome, Italy. It was founded by a donation of Henriette Hertz in 1913 as a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute....
    , Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    The Max-Planck-Institut f?r Astronomie is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. It is located in Heidelberg, Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany near the top of the K?nigstuhl , adjacent to the historic Landessternwarte Heidelberg-K?nigstuhl astronomical observatory....
    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching bei M?nchen, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1991....
    , Garching
    Garching bei München

    Garching bei M?nchen or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments....


  • Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

    The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The Institute, founded 1912 as a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was relocated from Berlin in 1945 to T?bingen and moved once more in 1956 to Munich....
    , Martinsried
    Martinsried

    Martinsried is a section of Planegg, a municipality neighboring Munich, Germany. Martinsried lies about 15 km southwest of Munich's city center....
  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

    The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is located in Jena, Germany. It was created in 1997, and moved into new buildings 2002. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Jena
    Jena

    Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
  • Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry

    The Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry is a science research facility located in the Germany town of M?lheim, northeast of D?sseldorf....
    , Mülheim/Ruhr, formerly Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine was founded on 1 April 2001 in M?nster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the Max Planck Society....
    , Münster
    Münster

    M?nster is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region and it is also capital of the government region M?nster ....
  • Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G?ttingen is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Currently, 730 people work at the Institute, 370 of them are scientists....
     (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute), Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
  • Max Planck Institute for Biophysics
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

    The Max Planck Institute for Biophysics is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in 1937, and moved into new buildings in 2003....
    , Frankfurt/Main
  • Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
    Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin 1914, and moved into new buildings in Frankfurt 1962....
    , Frankfurt/Main


  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics is a biology research institute located in Dresden, east Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2000....
    , Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
    Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

    The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry is a scientific research institute under the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.Basic research in chemistry and related subjects is carried out at the four departments of the institute....
     (Otto Hahn Institute), Mainz
    Mainz

    Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the Germany States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a politically important seat of the Prince-elector of Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman Empire fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine River and formed part of the northernmost frontier of th...
  • Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
    Max Planck Institute for Coal Research

    The Max Planck Institute f?r Kohlenforschung is a chemical research institute located in M?lheim, Germany. It was renamed of the Germany physicist Max Planck ....
    , Mülheim/Ruhr
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located Leipzig, Germany. The institute was founded in 2004 by a merger between the former Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich....
    , Leipzig
    Leipzig

    Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
    Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

    The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods is located in Bonn, Germany. It was founded 1997 as temporary project and transformed into a permanent institute 2003....
    , Bonn
    Bonn

    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
    , formerly Max Planck Project Group Common Goods, Law, Politics and Economics
  • Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
    Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces

    The Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces is a research institute for colloids and is located in Golm, Germany. It was founded 1990 as a sucsesor of the Institute for Physical Chemistry and for Organic Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof and of for Polymer Chemistry in Teltow....
    , Golm bei Potsdam
  • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

    The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in T?bingen, Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Tübingen
    Tübingen

    T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....


  • Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
    Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research is located in Rostock, Germany. It was founded 1996, and moved into new buildings in Rostock 2002....
    , Rostock
    Rostock

    Rostock is the largest city in the north Germany States of Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock is located on the Warnow river; the quarter of Warnem?nde 12 km north of the city centre lies directly on the coast of the Baltic Sea....
  • Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in T?bingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells in the induction process, as well as the form...
    , Tübingen
    Tübingen

    T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
    Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

    The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is located in G?ttingen, Germany. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
    , formerly Max Planck Institute for History
  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
    Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

    The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in G?ttingen, Germany, is a research institute for investigations of complex non-equilibrium systems in Physics and Biology....
    , Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
    , formerly Max Planck Institute for Flow Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
    Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

    The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems is located in Magdeburg, Germany. It was founded in 1996. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Magdeburg
    Magdeburg

    Magdeburg , the Capital of the States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....


  • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
    Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

    The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology is located in Jena, Germany. It was created in 1996, and moved into new buildings 2002. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Jena
    Jena

    Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
  • Max Planck Institute of Economics
    Max Planck Institute of Economics

    The Max Planck Institute of Economics was founded in 1993 as the Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems . Its initial mission was researching the transition of the former Eastern European socialism economic systems, but it now researches a broad set of problems relating to change in modern economies more generally, inc...
    , Jena
    Jena

    Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
  • Max Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Hanover
    Hanover

    Hanover or Hannover#Definitions , on the river Leine, is the capital city of the Federal states of Germany of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the House of Hanover, in their dignities as the dukes of Brunswick-L?neburg ....
  • Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding
    Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding

    The Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding is located in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 1996. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Halle/Saale
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
    Plön

    Pl?n is the district seat of the Pl?n district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 13,000 inhabitants. It lies right on Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Gro?er Pl?ner See, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides....
    , formerly Max Planck Institute of Limnology
    Max Planck Institute of Limnology

    The Max Planck Institute of Limnology concerned the study of inland waters like lakes, ponds and rivers. It is located in Pl?n, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....


  • Max Planck Florida Institute, Palm Beach
    Palm Beach

    Palm Beach may refer to:...
    , Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
  • The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the MPG
    The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the MPG

    The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft was founded in 1969 to offer highly qualified junior scientists in the area of biology an opportunity to establish independent research groups and pursue their own line of research within a five-year period ....
    , Tübingen
    Tübingen

    T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
  • Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG
    Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG

    The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany....
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....


  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics is a research institute for molecular genetics based in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft network of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science....
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

    The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein?s theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational wave astronomy....
     (Albert Einstein Institute), Golm bei Potsdam


  • Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (W. G. Kerckhoff Institute), Bad Nauheim
    Bad Nauheim

    Bad Nauheim is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany. As of 2004, Bad Nauheim has a population of 30,365. The town is located approximately 35 kilometers north of Frankfurt, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range....
    , formerly Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research
  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

    The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was established in March 1994. Its research is primarily devoted to a theoretically oriented history of science, principally of the natural sciences, but with methodological perspectives drawn from the cognitive sciences and from cultural history....
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  • Max Planck Institute for Human Development
    Max Planck Institute for Human Development

    The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is located in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1963. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....


  • Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology
    Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology

    The Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Freiburg, Germany. The institute was founded on the premises of a pharmaceutical company in 1961....
    , Freiburg
    Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. It straddles the Dreisam river, on the foothills of the Schlossberg....
  • Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

    The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Berlin. The institute was founded 1993 near the Charit? hospital in Berlin on the campus of the Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin-Mitte....
    , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  • Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken

    Saarbr?cken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city sits at the heart of a metropolitan area that bounds westwards to Dillingen, Saarland and northeastwards to Neunkirchen, Saarland, in which most of the people of the Saarland live....
  • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
    Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law

    The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law is a Munich, Germany, -based institute, part of the research institutions of the Max Planck Society, which manages more than 90 institutes and research institutions....
    , München
  • Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
    Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH

    The Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in D?sseldorf. The institute was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research in Aachen 1917 and moved 1921 to D?sseldorf....
    , Düsseldorf
    Düsseldorf

    D?sseldorf is the capital city of the Germany state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany. The city is situated on the River Rhine and has a high population density - the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has over 10 million inhabitants alone....


  • Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
    Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law

    The Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law is an non-university research institute located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany....
    , Freiburg
    Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. It straddles the Dreisam river, on the foothills of the Schlossberg....
  • Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
  • Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
  • Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law
    Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law

    The Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law is a research institute devoted to the field of foreign and international social law....
    , München
  • Max Planck Institute for European History of Law
    Max Planck Institute for European History of Law

    The Max Planck Institute for European History of Law is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 1964. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Frankfurt/Main


  • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
    Bonn

    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

    The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig was founded on March 1, 1996.At the institute scientists work on projects which apply mathematics in various areas of natural sciences, in particular physics, biology, chemistry and material science....
    , Leipzig
    Leipzig

    Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
  • Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
    Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg is a facility of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the medical basic research. Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof , Richard Kuhn , Walther Bothe , Andr? Michel Lwoff , Rudolf M??bauer and Bert Sakmann ....
    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
  • Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
    Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine

    The Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine is located in G?ttingen, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in 1947, and was renamed in 1965....
    , Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
  • Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
    Max Planck Institute for Metals Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Metals Research is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Stuttgart. The institute was founded 1921 as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in Berlin and closed 1932....
    , Stuttgart
    Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
  • Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
    Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

    The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is located in Bremen, Germany. It was founded in 1992 and moved into new buildings at the campus of the University of Bremen in 1996....
    , Bremen
  • Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
    Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

    The Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is a research institute for microbiology and in Marburg, Germany. It was founded 1991 . It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Marburg
    Marburg

    Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Its population is 78,701, and its geographical position is ....
  • Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics

    The Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics is located in in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded in 1992, as follow up of the German Academy of Sciences Berlin of Solid Sate Physics and Electron Microscopy and moved into the new buildings between 1997 and 1999....
    , Halle/Saale
  • Max Planck Working Groups for Structural Molecular Biology at DESY, Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....


  • Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
    Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

    The Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich in Germany....
    , Martinsried
    Martinsried

    Martinsried is a section of Planegg, a municipality neighboring Munich, Germany. Martinsried lies about 15 km southwest of Munich's city center....
  • Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Köln


  • Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Andechs
    Andechs

    The Benedictine abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee in the Starnberg in Germany, in the municipality Andechs....
    -Erling (Biological Rhythms and Behaviour), Radolfzell
    Radolfzell

    Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in Germany at the western end of Lake Constance approximately 18 km northwest of Konstanz. It is the third largest town, after Constance and Singen, in the Konstanz , in Baden-W?rttemberg....
    , Seewiesen (Reproductive Biology and Behaviour)


  • Max Planck Institute for Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Physics

    Max Planck Institute for Physics is a physics institute in Munich, Germany which specialises in High Energy Physics and Astroparticle physics. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute, after its first director....
     (Werner Heisenberg Institute), München
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

    The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching bei M?nchen, near Munich, Germany.In 1991 the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics split up into the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the Max Planck Institute for...
    , Garching
    Garching bei München

    Garching bei M?nchen or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments....
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

    The Max-Planck-Institut f?r Kernphysik is aresearch institute in Heidelberg, Germany.The institute is one of the 80 institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft , an independent, non-profit research organization....
    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
  • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology
    Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology

    The former Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology was located in Seewiesen, Bavaria, Germany. It was one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Seewiesen closing
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology is located in Dortmund, Germany next to the Dortmund University of Technology. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society ....
    , Dortmund
    Dortmund

    Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
  • Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology
    Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology is a research institute for Molecular Plant Physiology based in Golm, Germany. It focuses on the study of the dynamics of plant metabolism and how that relates to the entire plant system....
    , Golm bei Potsdam
  • Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research is located in Cologne, Germany. The institute was founded as part of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Plant Breeding Research in 1928 in M?ncheberg, midway between Berlin and the German-Polish border....
    , Köln
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching
    Garching bei München

    Garching bei M?nchen or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments....
     and Greifswald
    Greifswald

    Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. The town is situated approximately 200 km to the north of Berlin in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it borders the Baltic Sea and is crossed by a small river called the Ryck....
  • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
    Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research is a scientific research institute located in Mainz, Germany. It concentrates on foundational research on macromolecular materials....
    , Mainz
    Mainz

    Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the Germany States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a politically important seat of the Prince-elector of Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman Empire fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine River and formed part of the northernmost frontier of th...
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
    Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

    The Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry is a psychiatric institute in M?nchen, Germany. It is a part of the Max Planck Society....
    , München
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute for scientific research in the area of psycholinguistics. The institute is located in Nijmegen in the province of Gelderland in The Netherlands....
    , Nijmegen
    Nijmegen

    Nijmegen is a municipality and a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the Germany border. It is considered to be the oldest city in the Netherlands and celebrated its 2000th year of existence in 2005....


  • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
    Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

    The Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is a part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany.The institute is located in Garching, Germany, which in turn is located 10 km north-east of Munich....
    , Garching
    Garching bei München

    Garching bei M?nchen or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments....


  • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

    The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is located in Bonn, Germany. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society .* Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ...
    , Bonn
    Bonn

    Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....


  • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
    Erlangen

    Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach....
  • Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

    The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems is a computer science research institute co-located in Saarbr?cken and Kaiserslautern, Germany....
    , Kaiserslautern
    Kaiserslautern

    is a city in southwest Germany, located in the States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate forest . The historic centre dates to the 9th century and is within easy reach of Paris and Luxembourg ....
     and Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken

    Saarbr?cken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city sits at the heart of a metropolitan area that bounds westwards to Dillingen, Saarland and northeastwards to Neunkirchen, Saarland, in which most of the people of the Saarland live....
  • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is a research institute located in Lindau , Germany 20 km north east of G?ttingen. Its two research groups work in the exploration of the sun and heliosphere, and the exploration of planets and comets....
    , formerly Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Katlenburg-Lindau
    Katlenburg-Lindau

    Katlenburg-Lindau is a municipality in the Landkreis of Northeim , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km southeast of Northeim, and 20 km northeast of G?ttingen....
  • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research is part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in B?snau which is part of Stuttgart, Germany....
    , Stuttgart
    Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
    Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

    The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is a Germany social sciences research institute within the Max Planck Society located in Cologne....
    , Köln


International Max Planck Research Schools

Together with the Association of Universities and other Education Institutions in Germany, the Max Planck Society established numerous International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) to promote junior scientists:
  • International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences , Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology
    International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology

    International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology, also known as IMPRS for Molecular Biology, is a 1.5 years MSc program or a 4 year PhD program....
     , Göttingen
    Göttingen

    G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Complex Surfaces in Material Sciences , Berlin
    Berlin

    Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials, Stuttgart
    Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science , Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken

    Saarbr?cken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city sits at the heart of a metropolitan area that bounds westwards to Dillingen, Saarland and northeastwards to Neunkirchen, Saarland, in which most of the people of the Saarland live....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology
    International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology

    The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology is an international PhD program in molecular biology and cellular biology founded in 2006 by the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and the University of Freiburg....
    , Freiburg
    Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. It straddles the Dreisam river, on the foothills of the Schlossberg....
  • International Max Planck Research School for molecular and cellular Life Sciences
    International Max Planck Research School for molecular and cellular Life Sciences

    International Max Planck Research SchoolsTo date more than 50 have been established in Germany, each representing a joint cooperative of Max Planck Institutes and one or several German universities....
     , Munich
    Munich

    Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Cell Biology and Bioengineering , Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • International Max Planck Research School for the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy , Cologne
    Cologne

    Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
  • International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond, Katlenburg-Lindau
    Katlenburg-Lindau

    Katlenburg-Lindau is a municipality in the Landkreis of Northeim , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km southeast of Northeim, and 20 km northeast of G?ttingen....
     at the MPI for Solar System Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is a research institute located in Lindau , Germany 20 km north east of G?ttingen. Its two research groups work in the exploration of the sun and heliosphere, and the exploration of planets and comets....
  • International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Hannover and Potsdam MPI for Gravitational Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

    The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein?s theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational wave astronomy....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Analysis, Design and Optimization in Chemical and Biochemical Process Engineering , Magdeburg
    Magdeburg

    Magdeburg , the Capital of the States of Germany of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, lies on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Radio and Infrared Astronomy, Bonn at MPI for Radio Astronomy
    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

    The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is located in Bonn, Germany. It is one of 80 institute in the Max Planck Society .* Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ...
  • International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
     at the MPI for Astronomy
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    The Max-Planck-Institut f?r Astronomie is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. It is located in Heidelberg, Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany near the top of the K?nigstuhl , adjacent to the historic Landessternwarte Heidelberg-K?nigstuhl astronomical observatory....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Astrophysics, Garching at the MPI for Astrophysics
    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching bei M?nchen, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1991....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Surface and Interface Engineering in Advanced Materials, Düsseldorf at Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
    Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH

    The Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in D?sseldorf. The institute was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Iron Research in Aachen 1917 and moved 1921 to D?sseldorf....
  • International Max Planck Research School for Elemantary Particle Physics , Munich, at the MPI for Physics
    Max Planck Institute for Physics

    Max Planck Institute for Physics is a physics institute in Munich, Germany which specialises in High Energy Physics and Astroparticle physics. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute, after its first director....


Former institutes

Among others:
  • Max Planck Institute for Aeronomics in Katlenburg-Lindau
    Katlenburg-Lindau

    Katlenburg-Lindau is a municipality in the Landkreis of Northeim , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km southeast of Northeim, and 20 km northeast of G?ttingen....
     was renamed to Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
    Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is a research institute located in Lindau , Germany 20 km north east of G?ttingen. Its two research groups work in the exploration of the sun and heliosphere, and the exploration of planets and comets....
     in 2004
  • Max Planck Institute for Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Biology

    The Max Planck Institute for Biology was located in T?bingen, Germany. It was created as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in 1912, and moved to T?bingen 1943....
     in Tübingen
    Tübingen

    T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
     was closed in 2005
  • Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology

    The Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology was located in Ladenburg, Germany. It was founded 1947 as Max Planck Institute for Oceanic biology in Wilhelmshafen, after renaming in 1968, it was moved to Ladenburg 1977....
     in Ladenburg b. Heidelberg
    Ladenburg

    Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Neckar, 10 km east of Mannheim, and 10 km northwest of Heidelberg....
     was closed 2003
  • Max Planck Institute for Ionospheric Research in Katlenburg-Lindau
    Katlenburg-Lindau

    Katlenburg-Lindau is a municipality in the Landkreis of Northeim , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km southeast of Northeim, and 20 km northeast of G?ttingen....
     was renamed to Max Planck Institute for Aeronomics in 1958
  • Max Planck Institute of Oceanic Biology in Wilhelmshaven
    Wilhelmshaven

    Wilhelmshaven is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the western coast of the Jadebusen, which is a bay of the North Sea. Population: 83,238 ....
     renamed to Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology in 1968 and moved to Ladenburg
    Ladenburg

    Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Neckar, 10 km east of Mannheim, and 10 km northwest of Heidelberg....
     1977
  • Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research
    Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research

    The Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research was a research institute of the Max Planck Society formerly located in Munich in Germany.Founded in 1981, the institute included during its history the following units:...
     in München merged into the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located Leipzig, Germany. The institute was founded in 2004 by a merger between the former Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich....
     in 2004
  • Max Planck Institute for Protein and Leather Research in Regensburg
    Regensburg

    Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen River rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube....
     moved to Munich
    Munich

    Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
     1957 and was united with the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in 1977
  • Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen
    Tübingen

    T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
     since 1985 Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

    The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology is located in T?bingen, Germany. The main topics of scientific research conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying spatial information within the embryo, communication between cells in the induction process, as well as the form...


See also

  • Harnack medal
    Harnack medal

    The highest award which is presented by the Max Planck Society for services to society is the Harnack Medal, first awarded in 1925. Past recipients of the Harnack Medal are...
  • Max Planck
    Max Planck

    Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max Planck was a Germany physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the Quantum mechanics, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
    Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

    The Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft is a Germany entity formally known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur F?rderung der Wissenschaften e.V. ....
  • Schloss Ringberg
    Schloss Ringberg

    Schloss Ringberg is located in the Bavarian Alps, 50 km south of Munich, on a foothill overlooking the Tegernsee. Not open to the general public, it is a property of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is used for conferences....
  • Interdisciplinarity
    Interdisciplinarity

    In academia, pedagogy, physical sciences, earth sciences, human sciences and social sciences in general, an 'interdisciplinary field' is a term of art in the teaching professions, whereas the terms 'multidisciplinary field' or have become the hallmark of many modern technical professions which must cross traditional academic boun...
  • Transdisciplinarity
    Transdisciplinarity

    OverviewIn scientific contexts the term 'transdisciplinarity' is used in various ways. In the German speaking countries the term is most often used for integrative forms of research ....


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