Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences. It has its headquarters in a villa in Leipzigs Musikviertel neighbourhood.
Notable people
- Kurt Aland
- Annette Beck-Sickinger
- Walther Bothe
- Alexander Cartellieri
- James Chadwick
- Bernard Comrie
- Peter Debye
- Werner Heisenberg
- Gustav Hertz
- Archibald Vivian Hill
- Cuno Hoffmeister
- Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt
- Jörg Kärger
- Hermann Kolbe
- August Krogh
- Ursula Lehr
- Theodor Mommsen
- August Ferdinand Möbius
- Karl Alexander Müller
- Albrecht Neubert
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Max Planck
- Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Paula Hertwig, German biologist, politician
- Max Planck, German physicist
- Otto Vossler, historian