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Physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics.
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Werner Heisenberg
5 linksGerman theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
Following World War II, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, which soon thereafter was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics.
Max Planck Society
4 linksFormally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.
Formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.
International Max Planck Research School for Elementary Particle Physics, Munich, at the MPI for Physics
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
4 linksGerman physicist and philosopher.
German physicist and philosopher.
Weizsäcker was allowed to return to the part of Germany administered by the Western Allies in 1946, and became director of a department for theoretical physics in the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen.
German nuclear weapons program
3 linksName given to the project in Germany to research nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, during World War II.
Name given to the project in Germany to research nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, during World War II.
Also at this time, the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, after World War II the Max Planck Institute for Physics), in Berlin-Dahlem, was placed under HWA authority, with Diebner as the administrative director, and the military control of the nuclear research commenced.
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
3 linksResearch institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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.
Max von Laue
2 linksGerman physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
Laue, as one of the organizers of the weekly Berlin Physics Colloquium, typically sat in the front row with Nernst and Einstein, who would come over from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik in Berlin-Dahlem, where he was the director.
Karl Wirtz
3 linksGerman nuclear physicist, born in Cologne.
German nuclear physicist, born in Cologne.
From 1946, Wirtz worked at the Max-Planck Institut für Physik, which was the renamed Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics and had been opened in the British Occupation Zone in Göttingen.
Munich
2 linksCapital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria.
Capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria.
Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute), München
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
2 linksMax Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, 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 Astrophysics.
Kaiser Wilhelm Society
2 linksGerman scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.
German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.
KWI for Physics, founded 1917 in Berlin. Albert Einstein was the director 1917-1933; in 1922, Max von Laue became deputy director and took over administrative duties from Einstein. It is now the Max Planck Institute for Physics; also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute.