Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de 路 Feb 26

Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 馃槈馃巶馃コ On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in G枚ttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in G枚ttingen.

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Antoine 陌艧legen-Wojdyla 路 Feb 26

Happy birthday MPG!!

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research 路 Feb 26

Congratulations and greetings from G枚ttingen! 馃コ

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 路 Feb 26

Somehow we think it鈥檚 very auspicious that we were founded in a cafeteria...don't most great ideas start with coffee?馃槈鈽曪笍 [Credit: Niels Schr枚der]