The Max Planck Society was established in 1948 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with outreach around the globe. Max Planck was the founder of quantum theory. Today the Max Planck Institutes ...

For the purpose of advising and supporting its 84 institutes and research facilities the Max Planck Society maintains the Administrative Headquarters in Munich, where the offices of the President and ...

The Max Planck Society is a non-profit organization under private law in the form of a registered association. Its highest-ranking decision-making body is the Senate. Its members come from major ...

The Max Planck Society employs a workforce of more than 20,000 professionals in 84 Institutes, including over 11,000 doctoral candidates, postdocs, scientific researchers and visiting scientists.

These Max Planck Research Groups are then usually thematically linked to the Institute concerned. In addition, the Max Planck Society funds and calls for applications for open-topic Max Planck ...

promoting interdisciplinary research, and awards the young scientists after a successful defense with the degree "Doktor rerum naturalium" (Dr. rer. nat.) of the University of Mainz complemented by ...

In 1945 he became its President once more in an acting capacity, he was the only German scientist invited by the Royal Society to attend the Newton Celebration in London in 1946, and was Honorary ...

So an 86- year-old Max Planck once again assumed the presidency, after the Nazi regime forced him from the post in 1937. As part of the society's makeover, Planck, the founder of quantum theory, ...