Gustav Hertz Prize
The Gustav Hertz Prize is an award named after Gustav Hertz in the field of physics in Germany. It arose from the amalgamation of two earlier prizes: first in 1942 and then from 1961 with interruptions in 1966 and 1990, the German Physical Society (DPG) awarded the "Physics Prize of the DPG" and since 1978 the Physical Society of the GDR the "Gustav Hertz Prize" .
The Gustav Hertz Prize, which has been awarded by the all-German DPG since 1993, is given to young scientists for an “excellent, recently completed work”. The prize consists of a certificate and prize money of currently 7,500 euros.
Award winners
Physics Prize of the DPG
- 1942 Albert Kochendörfer , Wilhelm Walcher
- 1961 Ekkehart Kröner
- 1962 Gernot Gräff , Siegfried Wilking
- 1963 Ernst Feldtkeller , Ekkehard Fuchs , Joachim Heintze , Volker Soergel
- 1964 Josef Zähringer
- 1965 Ulrich Bonse , Heinrich Deichsel , Erwin Reicher
- 1967 Wolfgang Pechhold
- 1968 Helmut Kronmüller
- 1969 Georg Alefeld , Max Maier
- 1970 Heinz Burfeindt , Gerd Buschhorn , Christoph Geweniger , Peter Heide , Ulrich Kötz , Rainer Kotthaus , Raymond A. Lewis , Peter Schmüser , Hans-Jürgen Skronn , Heinrich Wahl , Konrad Wegener
- 1971 Werner Schmidt
- 1972 Rainer Haerten , Gerold Müller
- 1973 Albert H. Walenta
- 1974 Dirk Offermann , Albert Steyerl
- 1975 Dieter Haidt
- 1976 Werner Lauterborn
- 1977 Detlev Buchholz , Gert-Rüdiger Strobl
- 1978 Dietrich Habs , Volker Metag
- 1979 Helmut Möhwald , Hans Reithler
- 1980 Paul Leiderer
- 1981 Klaas Bermann , Ulrich Heinzmann
- 1982 Wolfgang Hillebrandt , Hans Klapdor
- 1983 Gerd Binnig
- 1984 Sigurd Hofmann , Gottfried Munzenberg , Willibrord Reisdorf , Karl-Heinz Schmidt
- 1985 Karsten Eggert , Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka , Hans Hoffmann , Ernst Radermacher
- 1986 Thomas Weiland
- 1987 Wolfgang E. Ernst , Jürgen Mlynek
- 1988 Alfred Petersen
- 1989 Henning Soltwisch
- 1991 Wolfgang Schleich
- 1992 Manfred Opper
Gustav Hertz Prize of the Physical Society of the GDR
- 1978 Jürgen Schneider
- 1979 Erhard Hantzsche
- 1980 Rainer Wedell
- 1981 Rainer Feistel
- 1982 Gunnar Berg
- 1983 Siegfried Matthies
- 1984 Gernot Neugebauer
- 1985 Gunter Dräger
- 1986 Ortwin Breitenstein
- 1987 Hans-Peter Fink
- 1988 Hans Flietner
- 1989 Bernd Rauschenbach
- 1990 Rolf Böttcher
- 1991 Steffen Trimper
Gustav Hertz Prize of the DPG
- 1993 Dieter Wintgen
- 1994 Markus Horst Donath
- 1995 Walter Metzner
- 1996 Jürgen Köhler
- 1997 Wolfgang Ketterle
- 1998 Martin Holthaus
- 1999 Elke Scheer
- 2000 Gunter M. Schütz
- 2001 Thomas Dekorsy
- 2002 Michael Bonitz
- 2003 Christoph Helmut Keitel
- 2004 Klaus Blaum
- 2005 Gunter Dräger
- 2006 Hartmut Abele
- 2007 Matias Bargheer
- 2008 Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo
- 2009 Roland Wester
- 2010 Thomas Pohl
- 2011 Jörn Dunkel
- 2012 Aldo Antognini , Randolf Pohl
- 2013 Eleftherios Goulielmakis
- 2014 Till Nikolaij Jahnke
- 2015 Thomas Bretz and Daniela Dorner
- 2016 Peter Keim
- 2017 Dennis Meier
- 2018 Lavinia Heisenberg
- 2019 Svend-Age Biehs
- 2020 Laerte Patera