The Max Planck Institute for Biophysics is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biop ... hysics in 1937, and moved into a new building in 2003. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft). An essential prerequisite for the understanding of the fundamental processes of life is the knowledge of the structure of the participating macromolecules. read more