Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences (Königlich Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften).

Notable people

 * Kurt Aland
 * Annette Beck-Sickinger
 * Walther Bothe
 * Alexander Cartellieri
 * James Chadwick
 * Bernard Comrie
 * Peter Debye
 * Werner Heisenberg
 * Gustav Hertz
 * Archibald Vivian Hill
 * Cuno Hoffmeister
 * Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt
 * Jörg Kärger
 * Hermann Kolbe
 * August Krogh
 * Ursula Lehr
 * Theodor Mommsen
 * August Ferdinand Möbius
 * Karl Alexander Müller
 * Albrecht Neubert
 * Wilhelm Ostwald
 * Max Planck
 * Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher
 * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
 * Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), German biologist, politician
 * Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist
 * Otto Vossler (1902−1987), historian