Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded 1958.

The three Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics are: Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Rashid Sunyaev and Simon White.

The Max Planck Society was founded on 26 February 1948 as the organisation following on from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. It was named after Max Planck, one of the founders of the Quantum Theory.

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The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astrophysics is a graduate programm offering a ph.d. in astrophysics. The school is a cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

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Coordinates: 48°15′40″N, 11°40′18″E


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