Max-Planck-Institute (Safari-Cache)

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes publicly funded by the federal and the 16 state governments of Germany. It is one of the leading German institutions in the area of basic research and the 83 research institutes conduct basic research in the interest of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

This cache is supposed to collect all Max Planck Institutes. The institutes can be found on this website of the Max Planck Society.

The cache and its log entries can be found here.

Your task:

Visit one of the institutes and take a pictures of you or your GPS in front of the writing that names the institute. In addition, take a photo of the building itself.

You can log, if the entry is in accordance to the following conditions:

1. Start your entry with the name of the institute and the city where it is located. In parentheses, please add the coordinates of the picture you took.
   
2. Give a short and reasonable (!) statement on the area of research which is conducted here or to the institute itself (e.g., architecture of the building, location and surrounding area of the institute, your own experience with the institute, etc.).
3. Add the pictures you took to the log entry. If you find an arial photo you are welcome to add it, too.

(As an example I present you the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung.)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr

(N 51° 25.074' E 006° 53.102')

The Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung at Mülheim an der Ruhr is almost one hundred years old, making it one of the Max Planck Society's oldest institutes. Time and again, the Institute has been a source of major technological impetus, including the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis for the production of fuels from coal, and Ziegler catalysts for the production of the major bulk plastics. Today, the Institute's activities are centred on research into energy- and resource-saving chemical reactions, with the focus on catalysis in all of its aspects. The aim of the researchers is to develop new, tailor-made catalysts – products that accelerate chemical reactions without themselves being changed. With the aid of catalysts, natural products and medically-active substances with a complicated structure can be efficiently synthesised; similarly, biomass can be converted to fuels and key basic chemicals.

Happy hunting and enjoy discovering the institutes!