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    Friedrich Paneth (1887-1958), Director of the MPI for Chemistry,
    in front of appliances, ca. 1956,
    Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Dahlem.
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    An employee infects a test plant in a protected chamber,
    Source: MPG-Spiegel 3/1982.
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    Radiant exposure of barley plants, ca. 1976,
    Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Dahlem.
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    Research Center for Human Ethology, Dr. Barbara Hold (right)
    observing a group children of a Kindergarden, ca. 1979
    Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Dahlem.
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    Visit of the First Lady Mildred Scheel
    In her capacity of the German Cancer Aid (Dt. Krebshilfe),
    2nd from the right: Dr. Volker Kachel,
    Ca. 1981, Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin.
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    Model of a molecular structure,
    Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Dahlem.
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    Staff outing of the Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin (1953),
    Source: Archive of the Max Planck Society, Berlin Dahlem.

Research Program
History of the Max Planck Society

The Research Program »History of the Max Planck Society« (Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, GMPG) had emerged from Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and its work in the historical epistemology of scientific institutions. Initiated by then president of the Max Planck Society Peter Gruss the program assumed its work with the approval of his successor, President Martin Stratmann, in June 2014. Until the program's completion in December 2022 it scrutinized the historical evolution of the MPS from its foundation in 1948 until the end of Hubert Markls presidency in 2002, or rather  the development of the Aufbau Ost program until 2005.
Jürgen Kocka (Berlin Social Science Center), Jürgen Renn (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin) and Carsten Reinhardt (University of Bielefeld) formed its directorate; the operational project management was the responsibility of Florian Schmaltz. 

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