Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (in German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft) was the name of a number of scientific institutes in Germany before World War II. After 1945 they were re-organised and renamed as Max Planck Institutes.

List of institutes

• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, founded 1912 in Berlin
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt/Main
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, headed by eugenicist Ernst Rudin and housed the infamous "Hallervorden Collection" of brains taken from victims of the Nazi euthanasia program
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, founded 1911 in Berlin, Dahlem, it now houses the Institute for Chemistry of the Free University of Berlin
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Private Law
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, in Berlin
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, founded 1911 in Berlin, Dahlem, now the Fritz Haber Institute
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