Max Planck – President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1930 – 1937: Planck’s long life and scientific work reflect the awakening and tragedy of the past two centuries, the belief in science and its failure in a special way.
In 1905 the German Physical Society appointed him Chairman
Hans Zacher was born in Erlach am Inn, Lower Bavaria, in 1928, the son of a village schoolteacher. „The village we lived in was small and impoverished,“ he says. Yet his house was a little treasure trove full of books. Very austere conditions but an appreciation of education and culture: „a wonderful foundation upon which to grow“. The nearest „little town with any sign of an urban culture“ lay on the opposite bank of the Inn, in Austria: Braunau. The nearest city was Passau, 60 kilometres away. „My early childhood had nothing to do with law,“ he would later write in an autobiographical draft. „Social norms, religious standards, customs and constraints“ – but not law.
President under the influence of German reunification
Photos of and with former President of the Max Planck Society, Peter Gruss (2002 – 2014).
German Delegation in Florida September 10, 2011 German
Max Planck President Martin Stratmann and representatives of the partner organisations of Munich Quantum Valley joined Minister President Söder and Ministers of State Aiwanger and Sibler in signing the foundation charter of the association.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), the German
Species that use more energy live longer and have fewer children
longer and have fewer children July 03, 2012 If a German
The global March for Science campaign is a non-partisan celebration of science, emphasizing the key role that science plays in society and politics. The rally in Munich has now gained a prominent advocate: Martin Stratmann, the President of the Max Planck Society, will join the protesters, and hold a brief speech at the closing rally at Siegestor.
in many places across the world, including several German
MaxPlanckResearch 2/2012: New Energy through Chemistry. Discovering new, preferably renewable energy sources while simultaneously protecting the environment – these are some of the challenging goals that scientists have in their sights for the future. After all, the future of our Earth depends on whether sustainability can be attained. Max Planck researchers are currently working on methods that would allow us one day to use the vast quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or wood chips, which are generated as a by-product of the timber industry, as chemical raw materials.
In German hospitals alone, 30,000 patients die every
Öffentliche Finanzen waren das zentrale Wahlkampfthema 2021. Mit Corona ist die gute Finanzlage der 2010er-Jahre obsolet. Die Parteien positionieren sich mit unterschiedlichen steuerpolitischen Vorschlägen. Über öffentliche Finanzen werden wichtige Gegenwartsfragen ausgehandelt.
finances were the key campaign issue in the 2021 German
Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale).
Scientific Member of the Senat of the German Research
A short biographical sketch of Stefan Hell, director at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
led a group, the Optical Nanoscopy Division, at the German
