Awards

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

Max Planck Society honours the work of SPD politician with its highest award more

Otto Hahn Medals and other awards presented to young scientists at the Annual Meeting in Magdeburg more

The biophysicist is being honoured for his groundbreaking development and application of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) more

Gaitsgory, director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, receives the award in recognition of his “foundational works and numerous breakthrough contributions to the geometric Langlands program and its quantum version; in particular, the development of the derived algebraic geometry approach and the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in characteristic 0”. more

Maria Sokolova, head of the Lise Meitner Research Group Bacteriophages at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, receives this year's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2025 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