Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was founded in 1759 and is the State Academy of Bavaria (Bayern), Germany.

The Academy has four kinds of Members: Ordentliches Mitglied (Ordinary Member), Korrespondierendes Mitglied (Corresponding Member), Außerordentliches Mitglied (Außerordentliches Member), and Ehrenmitglied (Honorary Member).
Ordinary Members must be resident or work in Bavaria. The number of Ordinary Members aged under 70 years is limited to 120.
Corresponding Members are not resident and do not work in Bavaria. The number of Corresponding Members is limited to 120.
When an Ordinary Member moves out of the State of Bavaria, he or she automatically acquires the status of Corresponding Member.
Leaders of some important scientific institutions in Bavaria may be elected as Außerordentliche Members, where their membership terminates with the end of their leadership.

Many highly respected scholars and 77 Nobel Laureates (as at 2009) have been Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, among them

• Niels Bohr (Corresponding Member 1926),
• Adolf Butenandt (Corresponding Member 1949, Ordinary Member 1957),
• Constantin Carathéodory (Ordinary Member 1925),
• Charles Darwin (Corresponding Member 1878),
• Albert Einstein (Corresponding Member 1927),
• Johann Albrecht Euler (Corresponding Member 1762),
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (Corresponding Member 1808),
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Corresponding Member 1808),
• Jacob Grimm (Corresponding Member 1832),
• Wilhelm Grimm (Corresponding Member 1852),
• Otto Hahn (Corresponding Member 1937),
• Werner Heisenberg (Corresponding Member 1949, Ordinary Member 1959),
• David Hilbert (Corresponding Member 1903),
• Alexander von Humboldt (Corresponding Member 1808),
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (Corresponding Member 1820),
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Corresponding Member 1808),
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (Corresponding Member 1808),
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Corresponding Member 1895),
• Theodor Mommsen (Corresponding Member 1852),
• Georg Simon Ohm (Corresponding Member 1845, Ordinary Member 1850),
• Max Planck (Corresponding Member 1911),
• Jules Henri Poincaré (Corresponding Member 1900),
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Corresponding Member 1896, Ordinary Member 1900),
• Ernest Rutherford (Corresponding Member 1911),
• Erwin Schrödinger (Corresponding Member 1949),
• Max Weber (Ordinary Member 1919).