The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (German: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) is an institute which was founded in 1846 under the name Royal Saxon Society for the Sciences (German: Königlich Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften). It has its headquarters in a villa in Leipzigs Musikviertel neighbourhood.
Notable people
Kurt Aland
Annette Beck-Sickinger
Walther Bothe
Alexander Cartellieri
James Chadwick
Bernard Comrie
Peter Debye
Werner Heisenberg
Gustav Hertz
Archibald Vivian Hill
Cuno Hoffmeister
Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt
Jörg Kärger
Hermann Kolbe
August Krogh
Ursula Lehr
Theodor Mommsen
August Ferdinand Möbius
Karl Alexander Müller
Albrecht Neubert
Wilhelm Ostwald
Max Planck
Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Paula Hertwig (1889–1983), German biologist, politician
Max Planck (1858–1947), German physicist
Otto Vossler (1902−1987), historian