Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Abbreviation	SAW
Established	1846
Legal status	treaty
Headquarters	Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1
Location	Leipzig, Germany
Coordinates	51.3347°N 12.3694°E / 51.3347; 12.3694
Official language	German
President	Hans Wiesmeth
Parent organization	Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Website	[1]

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).

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

External links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the German National Library catalogue