Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
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The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) is part of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes publicly funded by the federal and the 16 state governments of Germany....

 which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in Büsnau which is part of Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, Germany.
  • Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     laureates: Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....

     (Physics, 1985)
  • EuroPhysics Agilent Award (formerly the Hewlett Packard Prize): Ole Krogh Andersen (1980), Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....

     (1982), Walter Metzner (2006)
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
    The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...

     laureates: Martin Jansen (1990), Arndt Simon (1990), Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern is a German solid state chemist.Kern studied at the University of Bonn chemistry and physics, and received his Ph.D in 1986. He worked first at the Jülich Research Centre with a short visit at the Bell Labs in 1988. He became professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...

     (2008), Bernhard Keimer (2011)

History

The institute was founded June 1969. It moved from provisional buildings into the new built institute in September 1975. Shortly after being appointed to the institute Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....

 received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1985.

Degree programme

  • The MPI for Solid State Research offers the PhD
    PHD
    PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

     programme, International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Advanced Materials, together with the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
    Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
    The Max Planck Institute for Metals Research is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Stuttgart. The institute was founded 1921 as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research in Berlin and closed 1932. 1934 it was reopened in Stuttgart and incorporated into the Max Planck...

     and the University of Stuttgart
    University of Stuttgart
    The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....

    .

Directors of the Institute

  • Ole Krogh Andersen
  • Martin Jansen
  • Bernhard Keimer
  • Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern
    Klaus Kern is a German solid state chemist.Kern studied at the University of Bonn chemistry and physics, and received his Ph.D in 1986. He worked first at the Jülich Research Centre with a short visit at the Bell Labs in 1988. He became professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...

  • Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing
    Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....

  • Joachim Maier
    Joachim Maier
    Joachim Maier is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and heads the department of Physical Chemistry....

  • Walter Metzner
  • Arndt Simon

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