Max Planck Society
Formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.
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Kaiser Wilhelm Society
German 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.
Otto Hahn
German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry.
German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry.
Hahn served as the last president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science in 1946 and as the founding president of its successor, the Max Planck Society from 1948 to 1960.
Walther Bothe
German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.
German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.
In the year after Bothe's death, his Physics Institute at the KWImF was elevated to the status of a new institute under the Max Planck Society and it then became the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics.
Heidelberg
City in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.
City in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.
Heidelberg is a scientific hub in Germany and home to several internationally renowned research facilities adjacent to its university, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and four Max Planck Institutes.
Cologne
Largest city of German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million people in the urban region.
Largest city of German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million people in the urban region.
It hosts three Max Planck science institutes and is a major research hub for the aerospace industry, with the German Aerospace Center and the European Astronaut Centre headquarters.
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist.
German biochemist.
He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972.
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
In 1948, the German scientific institution Kaiser Wilhelm Society (of which Planck was twice president) was renamed Max Planck Society (MPG).
Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian.
Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian.
After a long period in U.S. Army hands after World War II it has now resumed the role Harnack envisaged, as a centre for international intellectual life in the German capital, under the management of the KWG's successor organisation, the Max Planck Gesellschaft.
University of Göttingen
Public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.
Public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.
Furthermore, the university maintains strong connections with major research institutes based in Göttingen, such as those of the Max Planck Society and the Leibniz Association.
Florida Atlantic University
Public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce.
Public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce.
The university has established notable partnerships with major research institutions such as the Scripps Research Institute, the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, and the Max Planck Society.