Max Planck Institute for Physics

Research institute in Munich, Germany

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Max Planck Institute for Physics

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

Former name

* Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics (1917–1946)
* Max Planck Institute for Physics (1946–1958)
* Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics (1958–1991)

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Established| 1 October 1917; 106 years ago (1917-10-01)
Research type| Basic research

Field of research

| Astronomy, astrophysics, particle physics, plasma physics, quantum mechanics
Director| Dieter Lüst
Staff| 330
Address| Boltzmannstr. 8
Location| Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
48°15′45″N 11°40′16″E﻿ / ﻿48.26250°N 11.67111°E﻿ / 48.26250; 11.67111

Operating agency

| Max Planck Society
Website| www.mpp.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a research institute located in Garching, near Munich, Germany. It specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics. The MPP is part of the Max Planck Society and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute, after its first director in its current location.

The founding of the institute traces back to 1914, as an idea from Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Emil Warburg, Heinrich Rubens. On October 1, 1917, the institute was officially founded in Berlin as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) with Albert Einstein as the first head director.[1] In October 1922, Max von Laue succeeded Einstein as managing director. Einstein gave up his position as a director of the institute in April 1933.[1] The Institute took part in the German nuclear weapon project from 1939 to 1942.[1]

In June 1942, Werner Heisenberg took over as managing director.[1] A year after the end of fighting in Europe in World War II, the institute was moved to Göttingen and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics, with Heisenberg continuing as managing director. In 1946, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Karl Wirtz joined the faculty as the directors for theoretical and experimental physics, respectively.[citation needed]

In 1955 the institute made the decision to move to Munich, and soon after began construction of its current building, designed by Sep Ruf. The institute moved into its current location on September 1, 1958, and took on the new name the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, still with Heisenberg as the managing director. In 1991, the institute was split into the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

## Structure

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There are three departments with multiple research groups:

* Structure of matter
* Innovative calculation methods in particle physics (Giulia Zanderighi)
* Quantum field theory and scattering amplitudes (Johannes Henn)
* String theory (Dieter Lüst)
* ATLAS detector (Siegfried Bethke)
* Belle II experiment (Hans-Günther Moser)
* Gravitational theory (Angnis Schmidt-May)
* New technologies
* AWAKE – Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (Patric Muggli)
* ILC and CLIC: Linear Colliders (Frank Simon)
* Astroparticle physics
* Particle physics and cosmology (Georgi Dvali)
* Theoretical astroparticle physics (Georg G. Raffelt)
* CRESST experiment (Federica Petricca)
* GERDA and LEGEND: the nature of the neutrino (Allen Caldwell)
* KATRIN and TRISTAN: Neutrinos and dark matter (Susanne Mertens)
* MADMAX experiment: searching for axion dark matter (Béla Majorovits)
* MAGIC and CTA: Gamma ray telescopes (Masahiro Teshima)

## Current and former directors

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The current directorial board of the institute is

* Allen Caldwell
* Giorgi Dvali
* Johannes Henn
* Marumi Kado
* Dieter Lüst (current managing director)
* Masahiro Teshima
* Giulia Zanderighi

Former directors of the institute include:

* Siegfried Bethke
* Ludwig Biermann
* Heinz Billing
* Gerd Buschhorn
* Peter Debye
* Hans-Peter Dürr
* Albert Einstein
* Gerhard von Gierke
* Fritz Haber
* Werner Heisenberg
* Leon Van Hove
* Max von Laue
* Walther Nernst
* Max Planck
* Heinrich Rubens
* Norbert Schmitz
* Leo Stodolsky
* Emil Warburg
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
* Karl Wirtz

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Geschichte Archived 2015-06-24 at the Wayback Machine" (in German). Max Planck Institute for Physics. Abbreviated version in English: "History Archived 2016-01-23 at the Wayback Machine." Retrieved 2015-08-30.

## External links

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* Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Physics

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Institutes|

* Evolutionary Anthropology
* Social Anthropology
* Astronomy
* Astrophysics
* Art History (Rome)
* Art History (Florence)
* Biochemistry
* Biogeochemistry
* Biological Intelligence
* Biology of Ageing
* Molecular Biomedicine
* Biophysics
* Brain Research
* Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
* Chemistry
* Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
* Research on Collective Goods
* Colloids and Interfaces
* Study of Crime, Security and Law
* Biological Cybernetics
* Demographic Research
* Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
* Dynamics and Self-Organization
* Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
* Chemical Ecology
* Chemical Energy Conversion
* Evolutionary Biology
* Neuroscience (Florida)
* Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
* Fritz Haber Institute
* Molecular Genetics
* Gravitational Physics
* Heart and Lung Research
* History of Science
* Human Development
* Science of Human History
* Immunobiology and Epigenetics
* Infection Biology
* Informatics
* Innovation and Competition
* Intelligent Systems
* Coal Research
* Tax Law and Public Finance
* Comparative Public Law and International Law
* Comparative and International Private Law
* Social Law and Social Policy
* European Legal History
* Mathematics
* Mathematics in the Sciences
* Medical Research
* Meteorology
* Marine Microbiology
* Terrestrial Microbiology
* Microstructure Physics
* Multidisciplinary Sciences
* Neurobiology of Behavior
* Ornithology
* Science of Light
* Chemical Physics of Solids
* Physics of Complex Systems
* Physics
* Extraterrestrial Physics
* Nuclear Physics
* Molecular Physiology
* Plant Breeding Research
* Molecular Plant Physiology
* Plasma Physics
* Polymer Research
* Psychiatry
* Psycholinguistics
* Quantum Optics
* Radio Astronomy
* Security and Privacy
* Study of Societies
* Software Systems
* Solar System Research
* Solid State Research
* Sustainable Materials

Associated institutes|

* Ernst Strüngmann Institute
* Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean

International
research schools|

* Evolutionary Biology
* Heart and Lung Research
* Molecular and Cellular Biology
* Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences
* Molecular Biology
* Neurosciences
* Organismal Biology
* Ultrafast Imaging and Structural Dynamics

Former institutes|

* Behavioral Physiology
* Biology
* Cell Biology
* Experimental Endocrinology
* Foreign and International Social Law
* Neurobiology
* Ornithology
* Physics and Astrophysics
* Psychological Research
* Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding

Presidents|

* Otto Hahn (1948–1960)
* Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972)
* Reimar Lüst (1972–1984)
* Heinz Staab (1984–1990)
* Hans F. Zacher (1990–1996)
* Hubert Markl (1996–2002)
* Peter Gruss (2002–2014)
* Martin Stratmann (2014–2023)
* Patrick Cramer (since 2023)

Nobel laureates|

* Walther Bothe (1954)
* Karl Ziegler (1963)
* Feodor Lynen (1964)
* Manfred Eigen (1967)
* Konrad Lorenz (1973)
* Georges J. F. Köhler (1984)
* Klaus von Klitzing (1985)
* Ernst Ruska (1986)
* Johann Deisenhofer (1988)
* Robert Huber (1988)
* Hartmut Michel (1988)
* Bert Sakmann (1991)
* Erwin Neher (1991)
* Paul J. Crutzen (1995)
* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995)
* Theodor W. Hänsch (2005)
* Gerhard Ertl (2007)
* Stefan W. Hell (2014)
* Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020)
* Reinhard Genzel (2020)
* Benjamin List (2021)
* Klaus Hasselmann (2021)
* Svante Pääbo (2022)
* Ferenc Krausz (2023)

* Kaiser Wilhelm Society
* Max Planck Digital Library
* Harnack Medal
* Schloss Ringberg

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* Israel
* United States
* Czech Republic
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