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Aerial view of the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics with assembly hall (left) and lecture hall (right)
Max Planck, after whom the society is named.
Entrance of the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich

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

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Heisenberg in 1933

Werner Heisenberg

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German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

Heisenberg in 1933
Heisenberg in 1924
A visual representation of an induced nuclear fission event where a slow-moving neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom, which fissions into two fast-moving lighter elements (fission products) and additional neutrons. Most of the energy released is in the form of the kinetic velocities of the fission products and the neutrons.
Replica of the German experimental nuclear reactor captured and dismantled at Haigerloch
Bust of Heisenberg in his old age, on display at the Max Planck Society campus in Garching bei München

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.

Weizsäcker in 1993

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

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German physicist and philosopher.

German physicist and philosopher.

Weizsäcker in 1993
Von Weizsäcker in 1983

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 2016

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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

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

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 2016

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.

Former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut for Chemistry in Berlin, the place at which nuclear fission was first detected

Kaiser Wilhelm Society

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German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.

German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.

Former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut for Chemistry in Berlin, the place at which nuclear fission was first detected
Former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut for Biology, Berlin
Opening of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin-Dahlem, 1913. From right: Adolf von Harnack, Friedrich von Ilberg, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Carl Neuberg, August von Trott zu Solz

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.