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Albert Vögler commits suicide
1945
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German capitulation
1945
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The birth of the “Max Planck Society”
1945
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The first Max Planck Society
1946
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Max Planck hands over the office of Interim President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society to Otto Hahn
1946
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Max Planck passes away in Göttingen
1947
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The foundation of the “Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e.V.”
1948
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The Königsteiner Agreement
1949
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The Berlin-based institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society join the Max Planck Society
1953
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Walther Bothe receives the Nobel Prize in Physics
1954
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The Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research moves to Cologne
1955
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New facilities for the MPI for Biochemistry in Munich
1956
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The Göttingen Manifesto
1957
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Otto Hahn heads a delegation to Israel
1959
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Dismantling the Kaiser Wilhelm Society – the origins of a myth
1960
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Adolf Butenandt becomes President of the MPS
1960
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Munich becomes new Administrative Headquarters
1961
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New building to accommodate the MPI for Brain Research
1961
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Cooperation with Israel – the Minerva program is born
1964
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The qualification of the Harnack principle
1964
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Foundation of the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tubingen
1969
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Inauguration of the Radio Telescope Effelsberg
1971
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Reimar Lüst becomes President of the MPS
1972
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The Martinsried Centre of Biochemistry set to work
1973
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Structural reform and the introduction of institutional Boards of Directors
1973
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Inauguration of the new building for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
1974
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Reimar Lüst in China
1974
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Opening of the Max Planck Society Archives
1978
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The Otto Hahn Medal
1978
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The inauguration of the first German electron storage ring for synchrotron radiation (BESSY I)
1982
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Ringberg Castle Conference Site is employed
1983
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Inauguration of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching
1986
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Burial of brain specimens at the Münchner Waldfriedhof
1990
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A unified German scientific environment − the science summit
1990
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Berlin becomes the registered office of the MPS
1992
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“Fördergesellschaft wissenschaftlicher Neuvorhaben“ begins its operations
1992
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The restitution of the Harnack House
1994
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Processing the past: The Presidential Commission for researching the National Socialist history of the KWS begins its work
1997
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Institutes closed in the “old” federal states
1997
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A new building for Administrative Headquarters
1999
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Inauguration of the Max Planck Potsdam-Golm Research Campus
1999
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The first International Max Planck Research Schools start up
2000
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President Hubert Markl apologises to the victims of crimes conducted in the name of science during the National Socialist era
2001
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Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz becomes part of the MPS
2002
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Representation in the new capital
2003
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The Max Planck Society intensifies cooperation with India
2004
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Partner Institute in Shanghai opens
2005
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First Max Planck Fellows are appointed
2005
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Renaming the Technology Transfer Centre
2006
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MPI for History is given a new focus
2006
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Concluding reconstruction in East Germany: A new building for the MPI for the History of Science
2006
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Gerhard Ertl is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2007
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The constituent assembly of the Ethics Council
2007
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The Max Planck Society Science Express makes tracks for India
2007
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Transatlantic presence. Founding the Max Planck Florida Institute
2007
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