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The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
| June 1st, 1983 | The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research is founded following a recommendation of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat): an interdisciplinary institution of polymer research should be established in view of the importance of macromolecules in science, technology, and industry. The central thrust of the Institute is to be basic research in the field of polymeric materials. Professor Erhard W. Fischer and Professor Gerhard Wegner are appointed the founding directors, representing both physics and solid state chemistry of polymers. |
| 1984 | Scientific work at the Institute starts in temporary laboratories that are made available by the University of Mainz and by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry which is also located on the University campus. Professor Hans Wolfgang Spiess joins the Institute as a director in the field of polymer spectroscopy. |
| 1988 | A first part of the Institute's permanent building on Ackermannweg on the edge of the University campus is completed. Fully completed the Institute consists of a working area of 10,000 qm. |
| 1989 | The fourth department, headed by Professor Klaus Müllen, is established for the field of synthetic macromolecular chemistry. Professor Kurt Binder, theoretical physicist at the University of Mainz, is appointed an external scientific member of the Institute. |
| 1990 | An extension of the building is finished. |
| 1993 | Professor Wolfgang Knoll is appointed the fifth director, working in the field of materials science. |
| 1995 | Professor Kurt Kremer is appointed a director in the field of polymer theory. |
| 1997 | Professor E.W. Fischer retires to the status of an 'Emeritus'. |
| 1998 | The building is completed including a lecture hall and a conference center, and laboratory space. Professor George Fytas, department of physical chemistry at the University of Heraklion, Crete, Greece, is appointed an external scientific member of the Institute. |
| 2002 | Professor Hans-Jürgen Butt is appointed the sixth director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Reserach. He herewith succeeds Prof. E.W. Fischer as a director for the Institute's Department of Polymer Physics. |
| 2006 | In October 2006, construction works for the new building finished and the new building is ready to move into. It offers 18 new offices as well as a special laboratory for the new NMR spectrometre. |
| 2008 | Professor G. Wegner receives an "emeritus" status at the institute. |
| 2008 | Professor Katharina Landfester is appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. She takes over Professor Gerhard Wegner's former group "Solid-State Chemistry". The group is renamed "Physical Chemistry of Polymers". |
| 2011 | As the successor of the department "Material Science" the new research group "Molecular Spectroscopy", headed by director Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn, starts its research work at the MPIP. |
| 2012 | Professor Paul W.M. Blom has been appointed new director at the institute. He is leading the newly founded research group "Molecular Electronics". In the latter part of the year, Professor Hans Wolfgang Spiess is retiring and remains emeritus and scientific member of the MPI-P. |
