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| Established | 1 October 1917; 108 years ago (1917-10-01) |
| Research type | Basic research |
Field of research | Astronomy,astrophysics,particle physics,plasma physics,quantum mechanics |
| Director | Giulia Zanderighi |
| Staff | 330 |
| Address | Boltzmannstr. 8 |
| Location | Garching bei München,Bavaria, Germany 48°15′45″N11°40′16″E / 48.26250°N 11.67111°E /48.26250; 11.67111 |
Operating agency | Max Planck Society |
| Website | www |
TheMax Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a research institute located inGarching, nearMunich, Germany. It specializes inhigh energy physics andastroparticle physics. The MPP is part of theMax Planck Society and is also known as theWerner Heisenberg Institute, after its first director in its current location.
The founding of the institute traces back to 1914, as an idea fromFritz Haber,Walther Nernst,Max Planck,Emil Warburg,Heinrich Rubens. On October 1, 1917, the institute was officially founded in Berlin asKaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) withAlbert 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 theGerman 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 toGöttingen and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics, with Heisenberg continuing as managing director. In 1946,Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker andKarl 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 bySep 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, theMax Planck Institute for Astrophysics and theMax Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.
There are three departments with multiple research groups:
The current directorial board of the institute is
Former directors of the institute include:
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