The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) is part of the Max Planck Society which operates 80 research facilities in Germany. It is a research institute located in Büsnau which is part of Stuttgart, Germany.
- Nobel Prize laureates: Klaus von Klitzing (Physics, 1985)
- EuroPhysics Agilent Award (formerly the Hewlett Packard Prize): Ole Krogh Andersen (1980), Klaus von Klitzing (1982), Walter Metzner (2006)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureates: Martin Jansen (1990), Arndt Simon (1990), Klaus Kern (2008), Bernhard Keimer (2011)
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