Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (German: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences (German: Königlich Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften).[1] It has its headquarters in a villa in Leipzigs Musikviertel neighbourhood.
AbbreviationSAW
Established1846
Legal statustreaty
HeadquartersKarl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1
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| Abbreviation | SAW |
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| Established | 1846 |
| Legal status | treaty |
| Headquarters | Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1 |
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| Coordinates | 51.3347°N 12.3694°E |
Official language | German |
President | Hans-Joachim Knölker |
Parent organization | Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities |
| Website | saw-leipzig |
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 (1889–1983), German biologist, politician
- Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist
- Otto Vossler (1902−1987), historian
