MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ASTROPHYSICS

The 'Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics' is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded as 'Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics' in 1958 and split up into the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1991.
The three Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics are: Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Rashid Sunyaev and Simon White.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner Guinevere Kauffmann is working at the institute since 2003.

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History

Graduate Program

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History

The Max Planck Society was founded on 26 February 1948 as the organisation following on from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. It was named after Max Planck, one of the founders of the Quantum Theory.

Graduate Program

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astrophysics is a graduate programm offering a ph.d. in astrophysics. The school is a cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

External links

★ Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

★ Homepage of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astrophysics