In 1955 the institute made the decision to move to Munich, and soon after began construction of its current building, designed by Sep Ruf.
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The institute was founded in 1958 as a successor to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen.
The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, today, the Max-Planck Institut für Physik) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.