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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.
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Werner Heisenberg
1 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.
Following the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's obliteration by the Allied Control Council and the establishment of the Max Planck Society in the British zone, Heisenberg became the director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
1 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.
From 1970 to 1980, he was head of the Max Planck Institute for the Research of Living Conditions in the Modern World in Starnberg.
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
0 linksResearch institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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.
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.
Kaiser Wilhelm Society
0 linksGerman scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.
German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.
Its functions were taken over by the Max Planck Society.
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.