Max Planck Institute directors

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)

German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)

German physicist (1882–1964)

German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)

French microbiologist and biochemist (born 1968)

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)

German physicist (1906–1988)

German biochemist (1903-1995)

German physicist

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)

German chemist (1872–1942)

German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)

Swedish geneticist (born 1955)

German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)

Dutch climatologist (1933–2021)

German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)

German physicist

German chemist (1898–1973)

Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)

director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany

German biochemist (1884-1951)

German astronomer

German biophysicist

German chemist (1937-)

German biochemist, Nobel Laureate (1911–1979)

German biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize)

German immunologist (1946–1995)

Austrian-Hungarian laser physicist and university teacher (born 1962)

German chemist (1968-)

German biochemist (1988 Nobel Prize)

German climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)

German chemist (1902–1980)

German mathematician

Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)

German physicist (1875-1953)

German mathematician

German bacteriologist (1866-1925)

German botanist and geneticist (1864–1933)

Russian astronomer (born 1943)

German mathematician (1927–2012)

German chemist (1853–1923)

Russian mathematician (1937–2023)

German chemist (1877-1947)

German physician (1874-1967)

Spanish theoretical physicist

German chemist and dissident (1910–1982)

German neurologist, entomologist (1870-1959)

German physicist (1929–2008)

German-American biologist (1878-1958)

German astronomer (1907-1986)

American developmental psychologist

German psychologist (1887–1967)

German physicist (1885–1968)

American mathematician

Soviet biologist (1900–1981)