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Founded on January 11, 1911 by Prussian Secretary of Cultural Affairs, August von Trott zu Solz, and funded by public subscription, the institute was intended to further Prussian prestige as a research establishment independent both of universities and the state. Its founding president was theologian Adolf von Harnack and vice president, Gustav Krupp. January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of... August Bodo Wilhelm Clemens Paul von Trott zu Solz (December 29, 1855—October 27, 1938) was a German politician. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... Adolf von Harnack, German theologian Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851 - June 10, 1930), was a German theologian and science administrator. ... Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Taffi, (August 7, 1870 - January 16, 1950) ran the German Freidrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. ...

They provided the scenes of much scientific work of lasting value, including, in 1938, the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin. However, several of the biomedical institutes achieved infamy through their participation in National Socialist (Nazi) racial science, particularly in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sketch of induced nuclear fission, a neutron (n) strikes a uranium nucleus which splits into similar products (F. P.), and releases more neutrons to continue the process, and energy in the form of gamma and other radiation. ... Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist. ... Fritz Strassman (February 22, 1902 - April 22, 1980) was a German physical chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927. ...

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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External links

• History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute under National Socialism (in German)