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Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2007

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The <strong>Max</strong> <strong>Planck</strong> Society<br />

The <strong>Max</strong> <strong>Planck</strong> Society <strong>for</strong> the Promotion of Sciences was founded in 1948. It<br />

operates at present 81 <strong>Institute</strong>s and other facilities dedicated to basic and applied<br />

research. With an annual budget of around 1.4 billion € in the year <strong>2007</strong>, the <strong>Max</strong><br />

<strong>Planck</strong> Society has about 12 600 employees, of which 4400 are scientists. In addition,<br />

annually about 11300 junior and visiting scientists are working at the <strong>Institute</strong>s of the<br />

<strong>Max</strong> <strong>Planck</strong> Society.<br />

The goal of the <strong>Max</strong> <strong>Planck</strong> Society is to promote centers of excellence at the <strong>for</strong>efront<br />

of the international scientific research. To this end, the <strong>Institute</strong>s of the Society<br />

are equipped with adequate tools and put into the hands of outstanding scientists, who<br />

have a high degree of autonomy in their scientific work.<br />

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