Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Abbreviation| SAW
Established| 1846
Legal status| treaty
Headquarters| Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1
Location|

* Leipzig, Germany

Coordinates| 51°20′05″N 12°22′10″E﻿ / ﻿51.3347°N 12.3694°E﻿ / 51.3347; 12.3694

Official language

| German

President

| Hans-Joachim Knölker

Parent organization

| Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Website| [1]

The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (German: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences (German: Königlich Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften).[1]

## Notable people

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* Kurt Aland
* Annette Beck-Sickinger
* Walther Bothe
* Alexander Cartellieri
* James Chadwick
* Bernard Comrie
* Peter Debye
* Werner Heisenberg
* Gustav Hertz
* Archibald Vivian Hill
* Cuno Hoffmeister
* Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt
* Jörg Kärger
* Hermann Kolbe
* August Krogh
* Ursula Lehr
* Theodor Mommsen
* August Ferdinand Möbius
* Karl Alexander Müller
* Albrecht Neubert
* Wilhelm Ostwald
* Max Planck
* Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
* Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), German biologist, politician
* Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist
* Otto Vossler (1902−1987), historian

## References

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1. ^ "Saxon Academy of Sciences home page".

## External links

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* Official website
* Literature by and about Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the German National Library catalogue

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