• Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
• Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
• Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
• Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
• Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
• Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
• Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
• Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
• Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
• Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
• Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
• Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
• Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
• Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
• Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
• Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
• Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
• Max Planck Institute for Informatics
• Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
• Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
• Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
• Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
• Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
• Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
• Max Planck Institute for Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
• Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
• Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
• Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
• Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
• Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
• Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
• Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
• Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
• Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
• Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
• Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
• Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
• Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
• Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
• Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
• Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine
• Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
• Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
• Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
• Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
• Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
• Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
• Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
• MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory
• Research Center caesar (center of advanced european studies and research) - Associated Institute

The Max Planck Society is Germany’s most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 20 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The more than 15,000 publications each year in internationally renowned scientific journals are proof of the outstanding research work conducted at Max Planck Institutes - and many of those articles are among the most-cited publications in the relevant field. The currently 86 Max Planck Institutes and facilities conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Max Planck Institutes focus on research fields that are particularly innovative, or that are especially demanding in terms of funding or time requirements. And their research spectrum is continually evolving: new institutes are established to find answers to seminal, forward-looking scientific questions, while others are closed when, for example, their research field has been widely established at universities. This continuous renewal preserves the scope the Max Planck Society needs to react quickly to pioneering scientific developments.