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Heisenberg in 1933
Max Planck, after whom the society is named.
Heisenberg in 1924
Entrance of the administrative headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich
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

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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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.

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Aerial view of the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics with assembly hall (left) and lecture hall (right)

Max Planck Institute for Physics

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Physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics.

Physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics.

Aerial view of the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics with assembly hall (left) and lecture hall (right)

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.

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.

From 1970 to 1980, he was head of the Max Planck Institute for the Research of Living Conditions in the Modern World in Starnberg.

Walther Bothe in the 1950s

Walther Bothe

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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.

Walther Bothe in the 1950s
Walther Bothe

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.

A second meeting was held soon thereafter and included Klaus Clusius, Robert Döpel, Werner Heisenberg, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics

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The Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics is a former institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany.

Located in Munich, it was also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute.

University of Göttingen

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Public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.

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)
The interior of the university Aula
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
The Alte Mensa
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Bernhard Riemann
David Hilbert
Felix Klein
Constantin Carathéodory
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Friedrich Wöhler
Heinrich Heine
Brothers Grimm
Arthur Schopenhauer
Rudolf von Jhering
Otto von Bismarck
Richard von Weizsäcker
Gerhard Schröder
Max Weber
Jürgen Habermas
John von Neumann
Gottlieb Burckhardt
Rudolph Sohm
William Graham Sumner
Emmy Noether
Edward Teller
August Weismann
Emil Wiechert
Arnold Sommerfeld
Ludwig Prandtl
Theodore von Kármán
J.P. Morgan
Maria Goeppert-Mayer physicist
Hsu Tzong-Li Chief Justice & President of Judicial Yuan Taiwan
R. G. Bhandarkar Orientalist
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.

Notable people that have studied or taught at Georg-August University include the American banker J. P. Morgan, the seismologist Beno Gutenberg, the endocrinologist Hakaru Hashimoto, who studied there before World War I, and several notable Nobel laureates like Max Planck and Werner Heisenberg.