Awards

Awards and honours for researchers in the Max Planck Society

Batene receives the Max Planck-Startup Award

The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries more

Dirk Görlich receives Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2024

The scientist investigates how large molecules are transported between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm more

Ceremonial setting: Ferenc Krausz receives the Nobel medal and certificate from the Swedish king Carl Gustaf.

Ferenc Krausz was presented with the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on December 10 more

Tobias Erb and Moritz Helmstädter receive the Leibniz Prize 2023

Tobias Erb and Moritz Helmstaedter are honoured with the most important German research prize more

The making of a quantum movie

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

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for Ferenc Krausz

The scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is honoured for his contributions to attosecond physics more

Balzan Prizes 2023 for Max Planck researchers

Jean-Jacques Hublin and Heino Falcke are among the four winners of the prestigious prize more

Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023

Rotem Sorek receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023 and Amy Buck and Kandice Tanner are honoured with Max Planck-Humboldt Medals more

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The European Research Council (ERC) awards 20 Starting Grants to the Max Planck Society, ten of them to female researchers more

Bonnie J. Murphy from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt/Main, and Giulio Malavolta from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, who receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2023 for their research.

The German Research Foundation recognizes Bonnie J. Murphy and Giulio Malavolta with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
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Batene receives the Max Planck-Startup Award

The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries more

Dirk Görlich receives Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2024

The scientist investigates how large molecules are transported between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm more

Ceremonial setting: Ferenc Krausz receives the Nobel medal and certificate from the Swedish king Carl Gustaf.

Ferenc Krausz was presented with the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on December 10 more

Tobias Erb and Moritz Helmstädter receive the Leibniz Prize 2023

Tobias Erb and Moritz Helmstaedter are honoured with the most important German research prize more

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for Ferenc Krausz

The scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is honoured for his contributions to attosecond physics more

Balzan Prizes 2023 for Max Planck researchers

Jean-Jacques Hublin and Heino Falcke are among the four winners of the prestigious prize more

Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023

Rotem Sorek receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023 and Amy Buck and Kandice Tanner are honoured with Max Planck-Humboldt Medals more

©ERC

The European Research Council (ERC) awards 20 Starting Grants to the Max Planck Society, ten of them to female researchers more

Bonnie J. Murphy from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt/Main, and Giulio Malavolta from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, who receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2023 for their research.

The German Research Foundation recognizes Bonnie J. Murphy and Giulio Malavolta with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
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Harnack Medal for Daniel Zajfman

The Max Planck Society honours Daniel Zajfman with the Harnack Medal in recognition of his remarkable contributions to the advancement of science and German-Israeli cooperation
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The making of a quantum movie

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

The human imprint in meteorological background noise

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

“We will be using unique new Treuhand data”

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

Celebrity at stand-up reception

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

Light switches for nerve cells

Max Planck scientists revolutionize neurobiology and win coveted science prize more

A close look was worthwhile for Stefan Hell - as was his tenacity.

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

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