A report on Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Max Planck Society

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

It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute, after its first director in its current location.

The MPA was founded as the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1991.

In 1991, the institute was split into the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

International Max Planck Research School for Astrophysics, Garching at the MPI for Astrophysics

International Max Planck Research School for Elementary Particle Physics, Munich, at the MPI for Physics