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The Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics is a former institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany. Located in Munich, it was also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institute. The institute was founded in 1958 as a successor to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen. In 1991, it was split into two successor institutes, the current Max Planck Institute for Physics and Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, both located in Garching.

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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)
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