The Max Planck Society is recorded here as one continuous institution with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the German research organization founded in Berlin in 1911 and renamed in 1948.
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account1911 is the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's own founding; the 1948 renaming to Max Planck Society, after its post-war refounding under Allied requirement, is told in the description above rather than recorded as a second founding year, consistent with how this atlas dates other institutions with a renamed, multi-stage history. Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account FounderSourced to the subject's own accountAdolf von Harnack (as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society) 1 SeatSourced to the subject's own accountBerlin, Germany, originally; administrative headquarters since 1 Connections
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Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, one of the Society's constituent institutes, from its 1917 founding until he emigrated in 1933, a separate affiliation from his later one at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Carl Bosch, Scientists Bosch served as president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, later renamed the Max Planck Society, from 1937 until his death in 1940.
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1. Kaiser Wilhelm Society (Wikipedia)
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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften) was a German scientific institution established in the German Empire in 1911.
Founding section
The inaugural meeting was held on 11 January 1911.
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