Heisenberg in 1933
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Aerial view of the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics with assembly hall (left) and lecture hall (right)
Heisenberg in 1924
Max Planck, after whom the society is named.
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.
Entrance of the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich
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

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.

- Max Planck Institute for Physics

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.

- Werner Heisenberg

The Max Planck Society and its predecessor Kaiser Wilhelm Society hosted several renowned scientists in their fields, including Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Einstein.

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

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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.

- Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg in 1933

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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

He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership.

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.