Harnack Medal

The Harnack Medal is an award given by the Max Planck Society .

The medal was donated in 1924 as a medal for services to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG), the predecessor organization of the Max Planck Society, and was awarded between 1925 and 1936; In 1953 the tradition was resumed by the Max Planck Society (MPG). The medal is the highest distinction of the MPG, which is bestowed for special services to the Max Planck Society.

The award is made by the President based on a Senate resolution of the Max Planck Society.

It is named after Adolf von Harnack , founding president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science , founded in 1911 .

Award winners

1925: Adolf von Harnack
1926: Fritz Haber
1929: Friedrich Schmidt-Ott
1932: Carl Correns , Franz von Mendelssohn
1933: Max Planck , Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach
1934: Carl Duisberg
1936: Albert Vögler , Ludwig Prandtl
1953: Gustav Winkler
1954: Otto Hahn , in gold 1959
1959: Theodor Heuss
1960: Erich Kaufmann
1962: Georg Schreiber
1963: Otto Warburg
1964: Heinrich Lübke
1965: Alfred Kühn
1970: Carl Wurster
1973: Adolf Butenandt , in gold 1983
1974: Walther Gerlach
1981: Kurt Birrenbach
1984: Hans Lutz Merkle
1990: Richard von Weizsäcker
1993: Reimar Lüst
1996: Heinz A. Staab , Michael Sela
1998: Hans F. Zacher
2001: Haim Harari
2004: Hubert Markl
2006: Lu Yongxiang
2008: Hermann Neuhaus ( posthumous )
2017: Peter Gruss

literature

Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : The Harnack Medal of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, 1924-2004. 2005 (= publications from the archive on the history of the Max Planck Society. Volume 19).
Chapter Harnack Medal. In: Eckart Henning, Marion Kazemi: Chronicle of the Kaiser Wilhelm, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science: 1911–2011. Data and sources. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13623-0 , pages 1003-1007 (status of the Harnack medal and photos of all holders).

Web links

Harnack Medal at the Max Planck Society (mpg.de)