Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

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Name (Latin)
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Other forms of name
MPA (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)
MPI for Astrophysics
MPI für Astrophysik
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 129038308
Wikidata: Q48861
Library of congress: nr 94008548
TEC10: 000068252
Sources of Information
  • Workshop on "Nuclear Astrophysics" (7th : 1993 : Tagernsee, Germany). Proceedings of the 7th Workshop ... 1993:t.p. (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München)
  • Its Annual report, 1995:t.p. verso (MPI für Astrophysik) p. 3 (usually called the MPA for short)
  • Its Web site, Jan. 31, 2006(Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik; founded 1958 as offshoot of the MPI für Physik)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Web site, Jan. 31, 2006(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik; one of the almost 80 autonomous research institutes of the Max-Planck-Society; founded Oct. 1, 1917, as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Albert Einstein, chairman; in 1946 reopened in Göttingen as Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Physik; moved to Munich in 1958 as MPI für Physik und Astrophysik; in April 1991, split into three MPIs: für Physik, für Astrophysik, and für Extraterrestrische Physik; latest "child" was born in 1995 as MPI für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut); Physics Institute)
  • Max Planck Society--Max Planck institutes, research units, and working groups, viewed Jan. 31, 2006(MPI for Astrophysics)
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Wikipedia description:

The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society. The MPA is widely considered to be one of the leading institutions in the world for theoretical astrophysics research. According to Thomson Reuters, from 1999-2009 the Max Planck Society as a whole published more papers and accumulated more citations in the fields of physics and space science than any other research organization in the world.

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