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Max Planck Society
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<p>The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German <a href="/facts/Research_institute/h1CjvE4X">research institutes</a>. Founded in 1911 as the <a href="/facts/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Society/FeQcYSho">Kaiser Wilhelm Society</a>, it was renamed to the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, theoretical physicist <a href="/facts/Max_Planck/KKk0698y">Max Planck</a>. The society is funded by the federal and state governments of Germany. </p>