Max Planck Society and Related Topics

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

Kaiser Wilhelm Society

German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.

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.

Otto Hahn

German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry.

Ernest Rutherford at McGill University, Montreal 1905

Hahn and Meitner, 1913, in the chemical laboratory of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. When a colleague she did not recognise said that they had met before, Meitner replied: "You probably mistake me for Professor Hahn."

Physicists and chemists in Berlin in 1920. Front row, left to right: Hertha Sponer, Albert Einstein, Ingrid Franck, James Franck, Lise Meitner, Fritz Haber, and Otto Hahn. Back row, left to right: Walter Grotrian, Wilhelm Westphal,
Otto von Baeyer, Peter Pringsheim and Gustav Hertz

Former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry building in Berlin. Heavily damaged by bombing during the Second World War, it was restored and became part of the Free University of Berlin. It was renamed the Otto Hahn Building in 1956, and the Hahn-Meitner Building in 2010.

Marble plaque in Latin by Professor Massimo Ragnolini, commemorating the honeymoon of Otto Hahn and his wife Edith at Punta San Vigilio, Lake Garda, Italy, in March and April 1913

The decay chain of actinium. Alpha decay shifts two elements down; beta decay shifts one element up.

This was touted for many years as the table and experimental apparatus with which Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission in 1938. The table and instruments are representative of the ones used, but not necessarily the originals, and would not have been together on the one table in the same room. Pressure from historians, scientists and feminists caused the museum to alter the display in 1988 to acknowledge Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch and Fritz Strassmann.

Plaque commemorating Hahn and Strassmann's discovery of fission in Berlin (unveiled in 1956)

5 DM coin, Germany, honouring Hahn and his discovery of fission, 1979

Monument in Berlin-Dahlem, in front of the Otto-Hahn-Platz

Otto Hahn on a stamp of the German Democratic Republic, 1979

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.

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.

Heidelberg Castle, here shown in a painting by Carl Blechen, was destroyed by the French during the war of succession of the Electorate of the Palatinate

Memorial stone marking the site of the synagogue in the Lauerstrasse

The marketplace, with Town Hall on the right

Heidelberg's old city centre from the castle above

Heidelberg Castle with the Old Bridge in foreground, 2010

View from the castle during winter, 2014

View from the so-called "Philosophers' Walk"
(Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town, with Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church and the Old Bridge

From left: Jesuit Church, Providence Church and Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg's Old Town on the Neckar River

Buildings of European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, including the new Advanced Training Centre

SRH Hochschule Heidelberg is one of the oldest and largest private universities in Germany

The New city district of Heidelberg, Bahnstadt, is one of the biggest passive house settlements in the world

Heidelberg with the Old Bridge illuminated

Romantic view of Heidelberg Castle ruins by Karl Philipp Fohr, 1815, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Friedrich Ebert first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925

Frederick V; Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia

Actor Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg

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.

Fresco with Dionysian scenes from a Roman villa of Cologne, Germany (site of the ancient city Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium), 3rd century CE, Romano-Germanic Museum

Attack on Deutz by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War in 1632

Soviet letter's envelope in honor of the Internationale Philatelic Exhibition LUPOSTA in Cologne in 1983.

Results of the 2020 city council election.

A plan published in 1800 shows the mediaeval city wall still intact, locating 16 gates (Nr. 36–51 in the legend), e.g. 47: Eigelsteintor, 43: Hahnentor, 39: Severinstor

Courtyard of the Kolumba museum in 2007, designed by Peter Zumthor

Tauzieher, a limestone sculpture by Nikolaus Friedrich, 1911

Water feature in Cologne, Germany, summer of 2017.

The Museum Ludwig houses one of the most important collections of modern art.

Roman excavation in Cologne: Dionysus Mosaic on display at Römisch-Germanisches Museum

Modern office building at Rheinauhafen, EA Games Headquarters

RheinEnergieStadion is the stadium of 1. Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln.

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 Friedrich Johann Butenandt in 1921

Adolf Butenandt

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.

Max Planck's signature at ten years of age

A side portrait of Planck as a young adult, c. 1878

Plaque at the Humboldt University of Berlin: "Max Planck, discoverer of the elementary quantum of action h, taught in this building from 1889 to 1928."

Planck in 1918, the year he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory

From left to right: W. Nernst, A. Einstein, Planck, R.A. Millikan and von Laue at a dinner given by von Laue in Berlin on 11 November 1931

Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung, 1906

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.

Adolf von Harnack (right) close to Kaiser Wilhelm II on the occasion of the inauguration of a new Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (1913).

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.

King George II, founder and president of the university

King George II in the Pauliner Church in 1748

Alte Aula (Great Hall), also Karzer, at Wilhelmsplatz (built in 1835–1837)

Sign at Göttingen train station displaying the motto Stadt, die Wissen schafft ("City that creates knowledge", playing also with the German word "Wissenschaft", English "science").

Central Library and "Raumskulptur" sculpture

The old Auditorium Maximum (built in 1826–1865)

Traditional Observatory of the university

The Pauliner Church, once the seat of the University Library in which Heinrich Heine, the Brothers Grimm, and Goethe worked

Hsu Tzong-Li Chief Justice & President of Judicial Yuan Taiwan

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs pioneer of the gay rights movement

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.

The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Campus Tower. Florida State AIA 1995 Award Winner designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and John MY Lee Architects

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.