Berlin

From 1911, so-called Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes (nowadays: Max Planck Institutes) are founded in order to establish German science at apex positions in international research. In 1912, Boveri is offered the leadership of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin. He is poised to move to Berlin the following year, but eventually declines because of his poor health. He nevertheless leaves his mark: the institutional structure and professional architecture he envisages in Berlin is largely implemented. Two of the department heads he proposes, Otto Warburg and Hans Spemann (Boveri's former assistant professor), go on to receive the Nobel Prize.