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...Currently director of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, a non-profit research center near Munich, Ullrich is renowned for his research in gene technology...
...recent studies is still too small to give a full picture of genetic variation. Others harbor doubts that the rate of mutation of mitochondrial DNA is constant enough to support conclusions about chronological dating. "Physical anthropology remains the gold standard for dating," says geneticist Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, a member of the team at the University of California, Berkeley that in 1987 identified "Mitochondrial Eve" as the 140,000- to 280,000-year-old ancestor of all living humans. "But we're getting better at genetic dating all the time...
...Wolfgang Streeck, an industrial relations expert at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, says U.S. executives shouldn't be frightened by works councils. "American companies are, contrary to popular belief, fatter than German firms and have more hierarchical levels," he says. "In the U.S., the enforcement of workplace regulations is handled by personnel departments, and when that doesn't work, you end up in court. Germany's lower instance of grievances translates into cost savings...
...began to unlock the mysteries of the atom: Max Planck launched quantum physics by discovering that atoms emit bursts of radiation in packets. Also the mysteries of the mind: Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams that year. Marconi was preparing to send radio signals across the Atlantic, the Wright Brothers went to Kitty Hawk to work on their gliders, and an unpromising student named Albert Einstein finally graduated, after some difficulty, from college that year. So much for the boneheaded prediction made the year before by Charles Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office: "Everything that can be invented...
...reason general relativity broke down at the Big Bang was that it was not compatible with quantum theory, the other great conceptual revolution of the early 20th century. The first step toward quantum theory came in 1900, when Max Planck, working in Berlin, discovered that the radiation from a body that was glowing red hot could be explained if light came only in packets of a certain size, called quanta. It was as if radiation were packaged like sugar; you cannot buy an arbitrary amount of loose sugar in a supermarket but can only buy it in 1-lb. bags...