Awards

The director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has been awarded the prize in the field of neuroscience, alongside three other scientists  more

The director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics is the first German researcher to receive this prestigious mathematics prize more

The Max Planck start-up aims to significantly improve IVF success rates more

The scientist has developed a method that can reduce the number of laboratory animals used in research  more

Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller, and Johannes Krause have been honoured with Germany’s top research prize more

Max Planck director honoured for the discovery of genomic imprinting  more

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive this year’s Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for deciphering the functional principles of cellular logistics and organisation more

The spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics wins in the StartUp category with its approach to a powerful and reliable quantum computer more

The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are this year honouring three researchers who have achieved extraordinary things at the boundaries of law, political science, and history more

The researchers are considered pioneers in the new field of cancer neuroscience more

Rescue from the UV catastrophe more

Electrons hold the world together. When chemical reactions yield new substances, they play a leading role. And in electronics, too, they are the protagonists. Together with his colleagues, Ferenc Krausz, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, photographs the rapid movements of electrons with attosecond flashes, creating the basis for new technological developments. more

Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2022 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 12 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research of the year more

The statistical model with which global warming can be attributed to increasing concentrations of CO₂ in the atmosphere was developed by former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Klaus Hasselmann, who will be receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for his work. more

Ufuk Akcigit, this year's winner of the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, explains the unique set-up of his Germany-based research project more

The Higgs particle gives mass to matter - and wings to experimental physicists more

Max Planck scientists revolutionize neurobiology and win coveted science prize more

Trying to controvert a seemingly incontrovertible law is a hard job. And Stefan Hell discovered just how hard when he attempted to thwart the resolution limit of optical microscopes. Initially, his ideas fell on deaf ears. Today, however, Stefan Hell is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. more