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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (German Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften) was a German scientific institution established in 1911 in Berlin-Dahlem. Its functions were later taken over by the Max Planck Society. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society was an umbrella organisation for many institutes, testing stations, and research units, in science, medicine and humanities. The first of the KWS’s institutes moved in their purpose-built accommodation in October 1912. The Institute for Chemistry with Director Ernst Beckmann and the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry with Director Fritz Haber were both inaugurated in Berlin. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Experimental Therapy was opened as early as 1913, followed by the KWI for Biology was founded 1915 in Berlin-Dahlem and moved to Tübingen in 1943. It was then the transformed in the Max Planck Institute for Biology.