A report on Max Planck Society and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Max Planck, after whom the society is named.

Entrance of the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich

GC department director Hans-Walter Rix in 2009

The Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, MPIA) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society (MPG).

- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, Heidelberg at the MPI for Astronomy

- Max Planck Society

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Heidelberg

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City in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

Heidelberg Castle, here shown in a painting by Carl Blechen, was destroyed by the French during the war of succession of the Electorate of the Palatinate

Memorial stone marking the site of the synagogue in the Lauerstrasse

The marketplace, with Town Hall on the right

Heidelberg's old city centre from the castle above

Heidelberg Castle with the Old Bridge in foreground, 2010

View from the castle during winter, 2014

View from the so-called "Philosophers' Walk"
(Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town, with Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church and the Old Bridge

From left: Jesuit Church, Providence Church and Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg's Old Town on the Neckar River

Buildings of European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, including the new Advanced Training Centre

SRH Hochschule Heidelberg is one of the oldest and largest private universities in Germany

The New city district of Heidelberg, Bahnstadt, is one of the biggest passive house settlements in the world

Heidelberg with the Old Bridge illuminated

Romantic view of Heidelberg Castle ruins by Karl Philipp Fohr, 1815, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Friedrich Ebert first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925

Frederick V; Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia

Actor Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a scientific hub in Germany and home to several internationally renowned research facilities adjacent to its university, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and four Max Planck Institutes.

Among them are the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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Research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

It is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society.

Others are the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching (located next-door to the MPA), the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (a.k.a. Albert Einstein Institute) in Golm.