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Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, also known as MPI-IS, is a Max Planck Society research institute with campuses in Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Physics (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), or Werner Heisenberg Institute, is a particle physics and cosmology research institute in Garching near Munich, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI-PL), Nijmegen: Max Planck Society research institute founded 1980 by Willem Levelt and Wolfgang Klein, devoted entirely to language science, with five departments and The Language Archive of 350+ collections.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, MPIWG) is a Berlin research institute, founded in 1994, studying the history of science and technology.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is a criminology and criminal law research institute of the Max Planck Society in Freiburg, Germany.
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) is Germany's largest organization for basic research, an independent non-profit founded in Göttingen in 1948 as successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, operating some 85 research institutes.
Max pooling
Max pooling is a downsampling operation in convolutional neural networks: a sliding window, typically 2 × 2, outputs the maximum value inside it, shrinking feature maps without learning parameters.
Max Porter (writer)
Max Porter is a British writer of hybrid prose-poetry novels: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), Lanny (2019), The Death of Francis Bacon, and Shy (2023), a former Granta Books editorial director whose fiction, marked by typographic experiment, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was Booker-longlisted.
Max Q (aerospace)
Max Q, short for maximum dynamic pressure, is the point in a rocket's ascent where aerodynamic forces peak; rockets typically throttle down their engines to fly through it.
Max Reaves
Max Reaves (born 2010) is an American stock car racing driver who drove the Cook Out No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing in ARCA, winning 12 races across the ARCA platform before JGR closed its ARCA program after 2026.
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (Maximilian Goldmann, 1873–1943), Austrian-born theater director and impresario, founder of modern director's theater, director of Berlin's Deutsches Theater and Großes Schauspielhaus, co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, died in New York exile.
Max Rendschmidt
Max Rendschmidt (born 1993, Bonn) is a German sprint canoeist with four Olympic golds: K2 and K4 1000 m at Rio 2016, K4 500 m at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, plus multiple world and European titles.
Max Richter
Max Richter (born 1966, Hamelin, West Germany) is a German-British composer and pianist of post-minimalist contemporary classical music; known for Memoryhouse, The Blue Notebooks, Recomposed Vivaldi, the eight-hour Sleep, and his Oscar-nominated Hamnet score.
Max Roach
Max Roach (1924–2007), American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader; bebop pioneer with Kenny Clarke who moved the pulse to the ride cymbal, led the Clifford Brown quintet, recorded Freedom Now Suite, founded M'Boom, and taught at UMass Amherst.
Max Rockatansky
Max Rockatansky is the protagonist of George Miller's Mad Max films, played by Mel Gibson (1979-1985) and Tom Hardy (2015), a patrolman turned wasteland anti-hero written as a mythological figure after the first film's international success.
Max Rose
Max Rose (born 1986) is an American Democratic politician, Army veteran, and former U.S. Representative from New York's 11th District (Staten Island, southern Brooklyn), who unseated Dan Donovan in 2018, lost to Nicole Malliotakis in 2020 and 2022, and later worked at The Soufan Group.
Max Rubner
Max Rubner (1854–1932) was a German physiologist and hygienist, founder of scientific nutrition physiology, who determined the metabolizable energy of nutrients and formulated the law of surface area.
Max Rudolf
Max Rudolf (Max Heinrich Rudolf, born 12 February 1891, Zürich), Swiss rower of Grasshopper Club Zürich; won 1920 Olympic gold in the coxed four and seven European titles, rowing with brother Paul Rudolf.
Max S. Peters
Max S. Peters (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer and educator who served as dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1962 to 1978.
Max S. Wicha
Max S. Wicha is an American oncologist and cancer biologist at the University of Michigan whose lab was part of the team that first identified breast cancer stem cells.
Max Salminen
Max Salminen, Swedish sailor born 1988 in Lund, Olympic gold in Star with Freddy Lööf at London 2012, 2017 Finn world champion, Finn sixth at Rio 2016 and ninth at Tokyo 2020.
Max Schaefer
Max Schaefer is an American video game developer who co-founded Blizzard North in 1993, worked on the Diablo series, and later founded Runic Games, maker of Torchlight.
Max Scheler
Max Ferdinand Scheler (1874–1928), German phenomenologist and value ethicist, author of Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Value; pioneer of philosophical anthropology and sociology of knowledge, distinct from Husserl's method.
Max Scherzer
Max Scherzer, MLB starting pitcher ('Mad Max'), three-time Cy Young winner (2013, 2016, 2017), two 2015 no-hitters, World Series titles 2019 and 2023, 3,407 strikeouts (11th all-time), record $43.3M AAV Mets contract.
Max Schmeling
Max Schmeling (1905-2005), German heavyweight boxing champion from 1930, famed for beating Joe Louis in 1936 and losing their 1938 rematch in 124 seconds; later a Coca-Cola businessman who sheltered two Jewish boys on Kristallnacht.
Max Schneider
Max Schneider, also known as Maxwell George Schneider, is an American pop and soul singer-songwriter and actor who performs as MAX and is known for "Lights Down Low."
Max Schreck
Max Schreck (Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck, 1879–1936), German stage and film character actor of the Münchner Kammerspiele, immortal as Count Orlok in Murnau's Nosferatu (1922); later the namesake of Batman Returns' Max Shreck and subject of Shadow of the Vampire.
Max Seddig
Max Seddig (1877–1963) was a German physicist whose chronophotographic Brownian motion measurements, published in 1907 and 1908, tested Einstein's 1905 theory; he spent most of his career at Frankfurt.
Max Showalter
Max Showalter (Max Gordon Showalter, also credited as Casey Adams), 1917-2000, American character actor, composer, and pianist; Broadway's Hello, Dolly! Vandergelder, over 1,000 TV appearances, Harrigan 'n Hart composer.
Max Shtein
Max Shtein is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is recognized for his research into functional organic materials and kirigami-inspired electronics.