Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences (German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V) is an independent non-profit organisation conducting scientific research through its institutes.

The Society was established on February 26, 1948, named after Max Planck, as the successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society[?]. Its budget for 2002 was about 1250 million euro, with 95% supplied by state and federal governments of Germany and 5% by donations and earnings.

Apart from the institutes, there are the International Max Planck Research Schools, Independent Junior Research Groups and other facilities.

Max Planck Institutes

• Max Planck Institute of Aeronomy[?], Katlenburg-Lindau[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology[?], Leipzig
• Max Planck Institute for Astronomy[?], Heidelberg
• Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics[?], Garching
• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology[?], Halle/Saale
• Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History[?], Rome
• Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry[?], Martinsried[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry[?], Jena
• Max Planck Institute of Biology[?], Tübingen
• Max Planck Institute of Biophysics[?], Frankfurt/Main
• Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry[?] (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute[?]), Göttingen
• Max Planck Institute for Brain Research[?], Frankfurt/Main
• Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology[?], Seewiesen[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research[?], Köln
• Max Planck Institute of Vascular Biology[?], Münster
• Max Planck Institute for Chemistry[?] (Otto Hahn Institute[?]), Mainz
• Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces[?], Golm b. Potsdam[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics[?], Tübingen
• Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology[?], Jena
• Max Planck Project Group Common Goods, Law, Politics and Economics[?], Bonn
• Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law[?], Freiburg
• Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology[?], Ladenburg b. Heidelberg[?]
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics[?], Dresden
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research[?], Rostock
• Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems[?], Magdeburg
• Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology[?], Tübingen
• Max Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology[?], Hannover
• Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding[?], Halle/Saale
• Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine[?], Göttingen
• Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems[?], Jena
• The Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory of the MPG[?], Tübingen
• Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG[?], Berlin
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics[?], Berlin
• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics[?] (Albert Einstein Institute[?]), Golm b. Potsdam[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development[?], Berlin
• Max Planck Institute of History[?], Göttingen
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science[?], Berlin
• Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH[?], Düsseldorf
• Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology[?], Freiburg
• Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology[?], Berlin
• Max Planck Institute für Informatik[?], Saarbrücken
• Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law[?], München
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law[?], Heidelberg
• Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung[?] (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr[?]
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institute[?], Firenze
• Max Planck Institute for Limnology[?], Plön[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Mathematics[?], Bonn
• Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences[?], Leipzig
• Max Planck Institute for Medical Research[?], Heidelberg
• Max Planck Institute of Metals Research[?], Stuttgart
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology[?], Hamburg
• Max Planck Institute für marine Mikrobiologie[?], Bremen
• Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology[?], Marburg
• Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics[?], Halle/Saale
• Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppen für strukturelle Molekularbiologie am DESY[?], Hamburg
• Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics[?], Heidelberg
• Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology[?], Martinsried[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research[?], Köln
• Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research[?], Leipzig
• Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology[?], Andechs und Radolfzell[?]
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology[?], Golm[?]
• Max Planck Institute of Physics[?] (Werner Heisenberg Institute[?]), München
• Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems[?], Dresden
• Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids[?], Dresden
• Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics[?], Garching
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology[?], Dortmund
• Max Planck Institute for physiological and clinical Research[?], Bad Nauheim[?]
• Max Planck Institute of Plasmaphysics[?], Garching
• Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research[?], Mainz
• Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law[?], Hamburg
• Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry[?], München
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics[?], Nijmegen
• Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research[?], München
• Max Planck Institute für Quantenoptik[?], Garching
• Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie[?], Bonn
• Max Planck Institute für europäische Rechtsgeschichte[?], Frankfurt/Main
• Max Planck Institute of Radiation Chemistry[?], Mülheim/Ruhr[?]
• Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research[?], Stuttgart
• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies[?], Köln
• Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law[?], München
• Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung[?], Göttingen

External link

• Max Planck Society website (http://www.mpg.de/)

References

• About the Max Planck Society (http://www.mpg.de/english/ueber/), last modified January 16, 2003
• Max Planck Institutes (http://www.mpg.de/english/institut/imprs/), as of February 12, 2003