The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences (German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V) is an independent non-profit organisation conducting scientific research through its institutes.
The Society was established on February 26, 1948, named after Max Planck, as the successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society[?]. Its budget for 2002 was about 1250 million euro, with 95% supplied by state and federal governments of Germany and 5% by donations and earnings.
Apart from the institutes, there are the International Max Planck Research Schools, Independent Junior Research Groups and other facilities.
- Max Planck Institute of Aeronomy[?], Katlenburg-Lindau[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology[?], Leipzig
- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy[?], Heidelberg
- Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics[?], Garching
- Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology[?], Halle/Saale
- Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History[?], Rome
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry[?], Martinsried[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry[?], Jena
- Max Planck Institute of Biology[?], Tübingen
- Max Planck Institute of Biophysics[?], Frankfurt/Main
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry[?] (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute[?]), Göttingen
- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research[?], Frankfurt/Main
- Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology[?], Seewiesen[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research[?], Köln
- Max Planck Institute of Vascular Biology[?], Münster
- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry[?] (Otto Hahn Institute[?]), Mainz
- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces[?], Golm b. Potsdam[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics[?], Tübingen
- Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology[?], Jena
- Max Planck Project Group Common Goods, Law, Politics and Economics[?], Bonn
- Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law[?], Freiburg
- Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology[?], Ladenburg b. Heidelberg[?]
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics[?], Dresden
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research[?], Rostock
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems[?], Magdeburg
- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology[?], Tübingen
- Max Planck Institute of Experimental Endocrinology[?], Hannover
- Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding[?], Halle/Saale
- Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine[?], Göttingen
- Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems[?], Jena
- The Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory of the MPG[?], Tübingen
- Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG[?], Berlin
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics[?], Berlin
- Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics[?] (Albert Einstein Institute[?]), Golm b. Potsdam[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development[?], Berlin
- Max Planck Institute of History[?], Göttingen
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science[?], Berlin
- Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH[?], Düsseldorf
- Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology[?], Freiburg
- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology[?], Berlin
- Max Planck Institute für Informatik[?], Saarbrücken
- Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law[?], München
- Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law[?], Heidelberg
- Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung[?] (Coal Research) (rechtsfähige Stiftung), Mülheim/Ruhr[?]
- Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institute[?], Firenze
- Max Planck Institute for Limnology[?], Plön[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Mathematics[?], Bonn
- Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences[?], Leipzig
- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research[?], Heidelberg
- Max Planck Institute of Metals Research[?], Stuttgart
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology[?], Hamburg
- Max Planck Institute für marine Mikrobiologie[?], Bremen
- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology[?], Marburg
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics[?], Halle/Saale
- Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppen für strukturelle Molekularbiologie am DESY[?], Hamburg
- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics[?], Heidelberg
- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology[?], Martinsried[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research[?], Köln
- Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research[?], Leipzig
- Max Planck Research Centre for Ornithology[?], Andechs und Radolfzell[?]
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology[?], Golm[?]
- Max Planck Institute of Physics[?] (Werner Heisenberg Institute[?]), München
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems[?], Dresden
- Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids[?], Dresden
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics[?], Garching
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology[?], Dortmund
- Max Planck Institute for physiological and clinical Research[?], Bad Nauheim[?]
- Max Planck Institute of Plasmaphysics[?], Garching
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research[?], Mainz
- Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law[?], Hamburg
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry[?], München
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics[?], Nijmegen
- Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research[?], München
- Max Planck Institute für Quantenoptik[?], Garching
- Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie[?], Bonn
- Max Planck Institute für europäische Rechtsgeschichte[?], Frankfurt/Main
- Max Planck Institute of Radiation Chemistry[?], Mülheim/Ruhr[?]
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research[?], Stuttgart
- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies[?], Köln
- Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law[?], München
- Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung[?], Göttingen