😁🎉😄🌟
#NobelPrize
!🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😊🏆😁
#PhysicsNobelPrize2023
for Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics! 🎊😃🥰😆🥳😁😃🎉🏅😊🎈😁🥳😄🎊😁🌟😃🥰🏆😁🎉🎇😊🥳😄🌟🎈😁😃🥰🎉🏆😁🎊😊😄🥳🌟🎇😁🥰😃🎉🎈😁🏆😊😄🎊🥳😁🌟😃🥰🎉🏅😁🎈😊🥳😄🎉😁😍😁🎉🎇😊🥳😄🌟🎈🏆
What better way to celebrate your
#NobelPrize
than being grabbed by your colleagues & thrown into your Institute's pond?😂At
#MedicineNobelPrize
Winner Svante Pääbo's
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
, scientific success is traditionally celebrated w/ a quick *voluntary* bath!😉🌊
@maxplanckpress
Sorry for repeating ourselves - but we are speechless AGAIN!😯🙂😯🙂😀🎉🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🍾🎉😀🙂😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😀🎉🍾🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😯🙂😀🍾🎉
#NobelPrizeChemistry2021
Benjamin List
@maxplanckpress
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung🤗😯🙂😀🍾😯🎉🤗🙃😁😃😁🙃🤗🎉
#Chemistry
#NobelPrizeLaureate
Emmanuelle Charpentier: “The fact that two women won this Prize will hopefully show to young girls & young female scientists...that nothing is impossible”. 😊 The full video of yesterday's press conference:
@maxplanckpress
Today's a very special day for us😇- it's our birthday!🎂😀Happy birthday, Max Planck Society! 🤗 75 years ago, on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.
#OTD
#maxplanck75
#maxplanckhistory
"Man ist es nicht gewohnt auf Probleme zu reagieren, die viele Jahre dauern...daher bin ich dankbar, dass jetzt die Jugend überall auf das Problem aufmerksam macht".
#Physik
-Nobelpreisträger Klaus Hasselmann
@MPI_Meteo
über das Engagement
#FridaysforFuture
gegen den
#Klimawandel
So: how exactly do you put the 'Merry' into the 'Christmas'? 😉Wouldn’t it be great if there was, say, an
#equation
for it? 😇Oooh, we’re so glad you asked!😁Here’s one of our absolute favourite seasonal tweets: the merry X-ma(th)s equation! 🎄🎅🎉❄️Happy Christmas, everyone!🤗
Wir gratulieren Emmanuelle Charpentier, Direktorin der Max-Planck-Forschungsstelle für die Wissenschaft der Pathogene, zum
#Nobelpreis
für
#Chemie
! Sie wird gemeinsam mit Jennifer Doudna für ihre Arbeiten zur Genschere
#CRISPR
/Cas-9 geehrt
Gratulation, Viola Priesemann! 👍😃 Die Physikerin hat heute für ihre Wissenschaftskommunikation während der Corona-Pandemie den Communitas-Preis der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft erhalten.
#Wisskomm
#CoronaPandemie
@ViolaPriesemann
Congratulations to
#Svante
Pääbo, director @ the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
on winning this year's
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine! 🙃😁🙃😃🤗 😃🤗🍾🍾🤗🍾🤗🙃
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
The
#BlackHole
family photo album gets its first picture! 😀This is the first ever image of a supermassive black hole: it's located deep in the galaxy M87, about 55 million light years away from Earth & sporting a whopping 6.5 billion solar masses
#EHTBlackHole
We got so many fantastic birthday wishes! 🙃Thank you to all our Max Planck Institutes that are celebrating with us & sending us their birthday greetings! 🎂🤗This video is from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry - now we can’t stop humming "happy birthday"!😁🎶
#maxplanck75
We are ecstatic beyond words that Ferenc Krausz, director @ Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
@MPI_Quantum
, has been awarded the
#NobelPrize
for
#Physics
“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”🥳😄
What's the best smell in the whole wide world? Books!😁📚This great graphic by
@compoundchem
explains why the aroma of books is so tantalising - now let's all go & inhale our favourite books! 😉🙃🤗More:
#WorldBookDay
Happy birthday, Max Planck! 🎂🎉🙃The accomplished pianist, revolutionary physicist,
#NobelPrize
winner & brilliant thinker, whose pioneering work in
#quantumtheory
reshaped the landscape of physics, was born
#OTD
.
Wir sind sprachlos! Ferenc Krausz vom Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in München erhält zusammen mit Pierre Agostini und Anne L’Huillier den Physik-Nobelpreis 2023. Wir gratulieren! 👏🍾😊
#Nobelpreis
#Physik
@NobelPrize
@MPI_Quantum
Happy
#PaperbackBookDay
, fellow bookworms!🤗On July 30, 1935, Penguin introduced its 1st paperbacks. But no matter if you prefer paperbacks or hardcovers, old or new books, one thing is indisputably true:
#books
are just the best smell in the world!😄📚[Graphic by
@compoundchem
]
Finally!🤗Confession: we’ve been looking forward to this tweet all year! 😉It's one of our favourite holiday posts: the
#Xmas
#equation
- a perfect combination of
#math
, merriment & seasonal cheer! 😃❄️🎅🎉🎄
Absolutely delighted, over the moon & quite frankly dancing around with joy at this moment that Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute f. Extraterrestrial Physics is one of the 2020
#Physics
#NobelPrize
winners!😊Congratulations, also to Andrea Ghez & Roger Penrose
@maxplanckpress
"Forschende in der Politikberatung zur
#Corona
-Pandemie d��rfen nicht von Medien diffamiert oder zur Zielscheibe persönlicher Angriffe gemacht werden." Berichterstattung
@Bild
trägt zu einem Meinungsklima bei, in dem Hass gedeiht, & gefährdet die Demokratie
Happy
#PiDay
, everyone!🤗Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 by
#maths
lovers around the world because when written out 3/14, the date corresponds to the first three digits of the mathematical constant π. Regardless how you look at π – it’s infinitely & irrationally delicious!😁😋
And now it's time for our favourite seasonal science tweet each year - the equation that should be in every Xmas stocking!🎄❄️😀Happy Christmas everyone & most merry equations! 😉
We're excited beyond words that our
@maxplanckpress
director Emmanuelle Charpentier has won the
#ChemistryNobelPrize
for her pioneering
#CRISPR
work! Many congratulations!🙃🥳🤗🍾 Also congratulations to Jennifer Doudna
@UCBerkeley
who shares the prize
Call for Applications 2020/2021: We offer junior researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Max Planck Research Group Leader in all areas of science. Application deadline is October 22, 2020
#sciencecareer
#MPRGL
The Max Planck Society offers its heartfelt sympathies to all those affected by the devastating earthquake in Turkey & Syria. We have an international community & we understand that some of our scientists, staff, & students may have family or friends in the areas concerned. (1/2)
We are over the moon! 🤗😯🙃Congratulations to Klaus Hasselmann, Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
@MPI_Meteo
@maxplanckpress
for being awarded the
#Physics
#NobelPrize2021
, jointly with Syukuro Manabe!🎉😁🍾 The other half goes to Giorgio Parisi.
Happy
#WomenInScienceDay
! Today we're celebrating all the incredible women & girls in science around the world - we are proud of you! 🥳🤗👍😊One of our truly inspiring role models, the amazing Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry 2020 with Jennifer Doudna.
“Let’s make science, not war”: Russian scientists & science journalists have published an open letter condemning the war with
#Ukraine
, calling it 'unfair' and 'senseless' (currently over 4,000 signatories). Russian: English:
Happy
#PiDay
, everyone! Today, March 14, marks the most mouthwatering
#maths
date of the year!😋When written as 3/14, it represents the first 3 digits of the special constant π (pi): so grab a slice (or two) of your favourite pie & let's celebrate the wonders of maths!🤗🥧
#idm314
Wir freuen uns für Reinhard Genzel und sein Team am Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische
#Physik
in Garching bei München. 👍🎆 Reinhard Genzel erhält gemeinsam mit Roger Penrose und Andrea Ghez den
#Nobelpreis
für Physik 2020!
@NobelPrize
@maxplanckpress
The case for masking up: new study shows tight-fitting
#FFP2
& vKN95 face masks drastically reduce the risk of
#COVID19
infection - but even ill-fitting masks still significantly reduce the risk of infection
@maxplanckpress
The Max Planck Society is deeply shocked by the recent terrible events in Israel. Our thoughts are with all those affected and their families, friends and loved ones.
Happy birthday, Max Planck!🎂 🎉Born in Kiel on April 23, 1858, the physicist & Nobel Prize Winner (1918) made many key contributions to theoretical physics & is known as the father of
#quantumtheory
. Oh, and there's a research organization named after him !😉
@maxplanckpress
Research shows that facemasks protect us & others against the
#coronavirus
: so how do you fold your masks to make sure they are a snug & safe fit?😷Here’s a quick video by our colleagues @ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. Watch out for the “W” shape!😉🙂
Born
#OTD
1858: today's the birthday of our favourite physicist - guess who😉? - yes, Max Planck! brilliant thinker & visionary physicist who changed the course of scientific history & whose contributions to the development of
#quantumtheory
transformed our understanding of the…
A big shout-out to all you squirrels out there! ❤️🐿️🐿️🐿️Thank you for inspiration & generally for brightening our days, especially in these home office times!) 🤗By
@errantscience
@MCeeP
&
@MichelleAReeve
We can't stop smiling! *Ok, grinning from ear to ear would be more accurate!*😁🍾🎉 We are absolutely overjoyed that this year's
#ChemistryNobelPrize
goes to Benjamin List, director @ Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung! Congratulations!🙂🤗 😀
@ListLaboratory
@maxplanckpress
Applications are open for our tenure-track Lise Meitner Research Group Leader positions 2022! The MPG's Lise Meitner Excellence Program is expressly aimed at promoting outstanding female early-career researchers in all areas of
#science
. Apply now!😃
'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives'. Carl Sagan, born
#OTD
1934 [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]
An image of the
#MilkyWay
`s black hole!
Observation with the Event Horizon Telescope improves our understanding of the processes at the galactic centre
@ehtelescope
#blackhole
Today marks the birthday of two (!) remarkable women scientists🥳- Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867), most famous for the discovery of
#radium
&
#polonium
& her
#radioactivity
research & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance unlocked the secrets of
#nuclearfission
. Happy birthday,
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin! 🎂🤗Born
#OTD
in 1809, Darwin's theory of
#evolution
by natural selection sparked a scientific revolution & changed the way we think about our place in the world.
#DarwinDay
[The Tree of Life Sketch from Charles Darwin's Notebook B, 1837]
Today is one of the most important days for scientists all around the world, a day where well-deserved recognition is bestowed where it is due! Yep, that's right - it's
#InternationalCoffeeDay
!😉 😂☕️[infographic by
@compoundchem
]
Solidarität mit Partnern in der
#Ukraine
: Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen friert wissenschaftliche Kooperationen mit staatlichen Institutionen und Wirtschaftsunternehmen in
#Russland
mit sofortiger Wirkung ein.
Happy
#DarwinDay
everyone! “From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”[Final sentence of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", 1859]
Warming stripes for
#Germany
. Each stripe represents average temperature for a year, starting on the left in 1881 and ending in 2017. The colour scale goes from 6.6°C (dark blue) to 10.3°C (dark red)
#climate
@ed_hawkins
It's
#InternationalCatDay
- a day to celebrate / admire / worship the kittens, cats, moggies & felines in your life & in general & to scratch lots of ears today! 😺😸Honouring this special day w/ an homage to Schrödinger's quantum feline!😉😸[cartoon by
@piecomic
]
Mit der Entdeckung, dass sich auch kleine organische Moleküle hervorragend als
#Katalysatoren
eignen, gehört Benjamin List zu den Pionieren eines neuen Forschungsfeldes in der
#Chemie
. Ein Porträt des Chemie-Nobelpreisträgers 2021
#Nobelpreis
@nobelprize
Happy
#IDWGS2022
! Today is
#WomeninScienceDay
, a day to celebrate the fantastic achievements of
#WomenInScience
around the world & encourage others to explore their passion! 👍🥳🤗One of our inspirational role models is Emmanuelle Charpentier, our 2020
#Chemistry
#Nobel
Laureate.
Happy birthday,
#MargaretHamilton
, born August 17, 1936: the visionary computer scientist & lead software engineer for
#NASA
’s Apollo Program was the brilliant mind behind the code that was key to taking humanity to the moon in 1961! 🎉🌕🚀
#womeninscience
At its meeting on 23 June 2022, the Max Planck Society’s Senate appointed Patrick Cramer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen
@mpi_nat
, as new President-elect for the term of office from 2023 to 2029.
@CramerLab
#maxplanckhv2022
Happy
#PiDay
, everyone! An especially mouthwatering day for all you
#maths
lovers writing March 14 as 3/14, the first three digits of the special constant π (pi)! And of course a perfect excuse to eat pie all day!😉
“Endless forms most beautiful”: Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, born
#OTD
in 1809, whose theory of
#evolution
by natural selection sparked a scientific revolution & changed the way we think about our place in the world.
#DarwinDay
It's our 70th anniversary today! 😊
#OTD
: The Max Planck Society was founded February 26, 1948 in Göttingen as successor organisation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
@maxplanckpress
Wow, just wow!🤩Huge congratulations to our President-elect Patrick Cramer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science
@mpi_nat
@CramerLab
, on being awarded the 2023
#ShawPrize
for
#LifeScience
&
#Medicine
for groundbreaking research in…
Wishing you all a very happy Friday 🤗🙂with this quick 'before & after pic' of our Max Planck director Prof. Ben List from the MPI für Kohlenforschung, who won the
@NobelPrize
in
#Chemistry
in October! 😉🙃😂😁
@ListLaboratory
@maxplanckpress
Want to head your own independent Research Group?😎 In an exciting research environment & enjoying full scientific & budgetary autonomy? Yes -? Then apply now! 🤗Positions are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders. Application deadline: May 11, 2023
Happy birthday to this brilliant scientist who revolutionised
#physics
& also happens to be our favourite physicist of all time 😃- not that we're in any way biased!😉Max Planck, theoretical physicist,
#NobelPrize
winner & originator of
#quantumtheory
, was born
#OTD
1858.🎂🎉🥳
The artificial-intelligence chatbot
#ChatGPT
can write fake abstracts that scientists have trouble distinguishing from those written by humans. Increasing sophistication of chatbots could undermine research integrity and accuracy, researchers fear.
@Nature
The Max Planck Society strongly condemns the violence against students, university staff & other peaceful protesters in
#Iran
& demands the immediate release of all those arrested in the course of the protests. Statement:
@maxplanckpress
Happy Birthday,
#QuantumTheory
! 🤗🎂🍾
#OTD
in 1900, Max Planck presented his derivation of his law for blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society in Berlin in a paper now regarded as the inauguration of quantum theory.
"In nature, nothing exists alone."
#RachelCarson
, biologist, writer & environmental trailblazer was born May 27, 1907. "Silent Spring" (1962), her iconic book on the harmful effects of
#pesticide
use on
#nature
& humanity, laid the foundations for the global environmental…
Harnack Medal for Chancellor Angela Merkel: Max Planck President Martin Stratmann presented the Harnack medal, the highest award of the Max Planck Society for services to
#science
, in a ceremonial event at the Humboldt Carré in Berlin this afternoon
Pioneer of environmentalism: happy 250th birthday, Alexander von
#Humboldt
! Born
#OTD
in 1769 in
#Berlin
, the fearless explorer, geographer & naturalist saw nature as a web of life & anticipated human-induced climate change more than 200 years ago.
#Humboldt250
@AvHStiftung
#Quantum
#cats
🐱all over the world are sending happy birthday wishes (and not! 😁) to Austrian physicist Erwin
#Schr
ödinger, pioneer of
#QuantumMechanics
born on August 12, 1887, best known for his cat thought experiment [cartoon:
@piecomic
]