Helmholtz Medal
The Helmholtz Medal was donated on August 31, 1891 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the eponym Hermann von Helmholtz and is an award to scholars for outstanding achievements initially in the fields of natural and technical sciences, medicine and epistemology, today also for the humanities and Social sciences awarded by the Prussian Academy of Sciences (from 1946 by the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , from 1992 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ). The first four recipients were suggested by Helmholtz himself in 1892.
The Helmholtz Medal has been awarded every two years since 1994.
Holder of the Helmholtz Medal
1892-1945
- 1892: Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond , Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Karl Weierstrasse
- 1898: Rudolf Virchow
- 1900: George Gabriel Stokes
- 1904: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- 1906: Antoine Henri Becquerel
- 1909: Emil Fischer
- 1910: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- 1912: Simon Schwendener
- 1914: Max Planck
- 1916: Richard von Hertwig
- 1918: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1946-1990
- 1959: Otto Hahn , Gustav Hertz , Max von Laue
- 1961: Niels Bohr
- 1964: Paul Dirac
- 1969: Nikolai Bogolyubov
- 1971: Viktor Hambarzumjan , Wladimir Fock
- 1975: Louis de Broglie , Hans Stubbe , Andrei Kolmogorow
- 1978: Karl Lohmann
- 1981: Peter Adolf Thiessen , Pjotr Kapiza
- 1984: Arnold Graffi
- 1987: Alexander Prokhorov , Samuel Mitja Rapoport
- 1990: Heinz Bethge
Since 1994
- 1994: Manfred Eigen , biophysicist
- 1996: Noam Chomsky , linguist
- 1998: Roger Penrose , theoretical physicist
- 2000: Jürgen Habermas , philosopher
- 2002: Friedrich Hirzebruch , mathematician
- 2004: Hans-Ulrich Wehler , historian
- 2006: Günter Spur , engineering scientist
- 2008: Peter Wapnewski , ancient Germanist and philologist
- 2010: Niels Birbaumer , neuroscientist
- 2012: John C. Polanyi , chemist
- 2014: Murray Gell-Mann , physicist
- 2016: Nicholas Rescher , philosopher
- 2018: Rita R. Colwell , microbiologist
See also
- Helmholtz Medal of the German Society for Acoustics
- Helmholtz Prize from the Helmholtz Fund and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
literature
- Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-002153-5 , pp. 422-423
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Knobloch, Weierstraß and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, in Wolfgang König, Jürgen Sprekels (ed.), Karl Weierstraß, Springer-Spektrum, 2016, p. 134