Talk:Max Planck Society

Link for MPQ
"Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics" redirects to a non-existent German version. Maybe the Opticians among us can decide what should be done to it. Robin Patterson 23:40, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Critique
I'm deleting the Critque section after reading the article, the man who claims this is a guy who is suing the Max Planck Institute and he doesn't cite any of his sources for the statistics, next why don't we add that Joe Nobody said that Ford Motors is "gay"?

"considered the foremost research institution in Europe"
of course this should be quoted with a source but i think everyone involved in science will agree with that statment. Research in this case means basic research though. The MPG could even be the foremost research institution in the world, but this is mostly due to its enormous size whilst in other countries the basic research is spread over several institutions. There should be some stats on the MPG site. Slicky 17:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * About the enormous size: It's annual budget of 1.4bn EUR is actually comparable to that of one, or maybe two to three large US universities...129.69.55.52 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:41, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, but most of that money in the US universities is not spent on science, but on the football team, the basketball team, the athletics program, extension programs, all manner of non-science-producing undergraduate programs, etc.


 * Yup, compare with Harvard: it alone spends $3.8bn per year - but it actually only has about 2,000 academic staff and maybe another 2-3,000 PhD students, somewhere between a half or a third of the MPIs. (And maybe half of those academics are in law, business or politics rather than sciences.) -- 192.223.158.46 (talk) 10:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Stats found and referenced ;) --Ioverka (talk) 04:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

"Cleanup" tag
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removed after reworking the article. hope this was fine --Ioverka (talk) 04:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies missing
http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/mpifg_dp/dp07-13.pdf would suggest that there is also a Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. I know nothing further, but I notice it isn't mentioned in this article. - Jmabel | Talk 05:00, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Correct - now it is included. Plehn (talk) 09:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

IMPRS
The Graduate Schools "International Max Planck Research Schools" (IMPRS) should be taken out of the article. Today there are over 50 of these schools, but they are "only" a program of cooperation (very sucessful) with the universities. It is not useful to have articles about them, because there is no literature about them. Plehn (talk) 09:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that they have to be taken out. It makes sense to move them into a separate page, like it is done in German Wikipedia though. --Pavlo Chemist (talk) 13:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Max Planck Institute for European History of Law vs. European Legal History
In the List of Institutes the "MPI für europäische Rechtsgeschichte" is translated to "MPI for European History of Law". On the official Homepage of the Institute it translates to "MPI for European Legal History". I think we should use the official English translation in Wikipedia as well. I shy away from simply changing the Name of the Wikipedia page about the Institute since the page name is also the link-name. Does anybody know if there exist a script to change a page name and all corresponding intern links on Wikipedia? For the time beeing I changed the Name that appear in the List but not the link itself resp. the name of the page it links to. Olaf hamburg (talk) 09:23, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * You are right, changed. Links in other articles will work as the old page is a redirect to the new page, but to change it in articles it is necessary to do manually or for many inclusions asking for replacement using Bot. --Pavlo Chemist (talk) 13:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed Max Planck Institutes template
To facilitate navigation among the Max Planck research institutes, such a template would be useful. There are about 80 institute pages and about 10 related pages ie libraries & projects etc. Other institutional examples: ,, at NASA: several such as ,

Russian Academy of Sciences also doesn't exist but might also follow this line...--DadaNeem (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Template:Max Planck Society exists, but it is outdated. Maybe later I will try to bring it into shape. --Pavlo Chemist (talk) 13:45, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Ranking
Where can any sources for the statement "In 2006, the Times Higher Education Supplement rankings[2] of non-university research institutions (based on international peer review by academics) placed the Max Planck Society as No.1 in the world for science research, and No.3 in technology research (behind AT&T Corporation and the Argonne National Laboratory in the United States)." be found? The referenced link is dead, and Googling for the ranking brings up only copies of this article on the Max Planck Society. 129.69.215.37 (talk) 07:42, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Image of Eugen Fischer and Max Planck
This image is quite misleading - it is from 1940 - where the Max Planck Society does not exist. Eugen Fischer was a "Scientific Member" of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society, but NOT of the Max-Planck-Society (look at the german wikipedia-article about him) - even for the people in around 1950 who reconstructed the Max Planck Society he was unbearable because of his involvement in racial nazi-politics. So this image fits to articles about Fischer, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society or something else, but not to an article about the Max Planck Society. I will look for a better one (for a long time, I think twelve years, Otto Hahn was the president of the MPS). --Cholo 3 (talk) 17:03, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Spin off the institutions into a seperate page?
With over 80 research institutes as part of the Max Planck society, it's a bit ridiculous. Almost all of the articles are stubs. If you look at the German page (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) there's a seperate page for the sub-institutions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rpeps (talk • contribs) 19:35, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

This would be useful, I agree. --Cholo 3 (talk) 13:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Moved to List of Max Planck Institutes --Pavlo Chemist (talk) 13:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Languages
Is work languages only german or english also?--Kaiyr (talk) 07:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is not included
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is missing from the Institute list. 38.69.57.27 (talk) 04:59, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Moved from article to talk page - please rewrite or delete
deleted (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * What is your issue with this paragraph? intforce (talk) 08:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Since you have put the section back into the article without changing it, you will also take care of rewriting the article. Luamssuk (talk) 20:19, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You still have not stated why you think the article needs to be rewritten. intforce (talk) 21:59, 26 February 2024 (UTC)