Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than eighty research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society in the sciences and humanities.
At any given moment, there are approximately 75 scholars working at the MPIWG, from pre- and post-doctoral fellows to senior visiting scholars. Their backgrounds are multidisciplinary and international. Although many are working on individual projects (a dissertation, an article, or a monograph), all are part of the larger thematic research projects. Since its inception, the MPIWG has encouraged collective research and publications in the humanities in the form of working groups that combine the expertise of many specialties and encourage sustained discussions on topics that cut across continents, centuries, and disciplines.