Max-Planck-Institut Für Astrophysik
The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a research institute located in Garching bei München, Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of many scientific Research institute, research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society. The MPA is widely considered to be one of the leading institutions in the world for theoretical astrophysics research. According to Thomson Reuters, from 1999-2009 the Max Planck Society as a whole published more papers and accumulated more citations in the fields of physics and space science than any other research organization in the world. History The Max Planck Society was founded on 26 February 1948. It effectively replaced the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, which was dissolved after World War II. The society is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of Quantum mechanics, quantum theory. The MPA was founded as the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1958 and split into t ...
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