List of honorary members of the German Physical Society
With the honorary membership, the German Physical Society (DPG) recognizes the achievements of its members and other physicists in the field of science and cooperation within the society. Honorary membership is conferred by the respective chairman during the ceremony of a DPG annual conference. Although the DPG is the largest specialist society in the world (as of 2018), it has a manageable number of 61 honorary members (as of 2019). The Physical club for example, has appointed more than 300 honorary members since its founding in 1824th Lise Meitner is the only woman who has received this honor.
Honorary members
| Surname | Life dates | Appointment as an honorary member | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reimar Lüst | 1923-2020 | 2017 | in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of theoretical plasma physics, especially magnetohydrodynamics, as well as his experimental work to explain the origin of the comet's tail. In addition, Reimar Lüst has made a significant contribution to the development and further development of the German and European scientific landscape through his leading activities in research management for several decades. |
| Siegfried Grossmann | 1930– | 2017 | in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the theoretical physics of complex systems, in particular in turbulence and chaos research, and his great merits in physics, which he has promoted competently and tirelessly as an academic teacher and textbook author as well as in charge of science policy. |
| Herrmann hook | 1927– | 2016 | With the award of honorary membership, the DPG pays tribute to his decades of exemplary commitment as an academic teacher who has shaped generations of physics students through his textbooks, and as a researcher who has pioneered physics and opened up new areas such as synergetics. As a result, he has achieved outstanding achievements for the subject of physics in a unique way and in keeping with the statutes of the German Physical Society. |
| Wolfgang Frühwald | 1935-2019 | 2016 |
Gustav Magnus Medal - special form of honorary membership
With this special form of honorary membership of the DPG, the DPG honors Wolfgang Frühwald's decades of work as a mediator between the natural sciences and the humanities, as well as his convincing arguments for the role of physics as the “leading discipline of natural sciences”. |
| Wolfgang Ketterle | 1957– | 2015 | in recognition of his outstanding research achievements as well as his exemplary personal commitment to physics, his ability and his unbroken commitment to inspire young people across countries and continents for physics. |
| Knut Urban | 1941– | 2015 | in recognition of his fundamental and application-oriented work in the field of atomic-resolution electron microscopy as well as his decades of outstanding work and his services to the German Physical Society. As a member of the board of directors, the board of directors and as president, he made the DPG successful and visible: internally through a new statute, the range of services of the DPG and the establishment of the convention, externally particularly through increased contact with national and international specialist societies and through numerous Statements of the DPG on scientific, educational, socially relevant and political topics. |
| Dieter Roess | 1932– | 2013 | in recognition of his pioneering achievements in laser physics and, building on a successful industrial career, his pioneering and energetic volunteer work for the German Physical Society and for physics in Germany. As chairman of the board of directors of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, he has achieved outstanding services for more than 25 years in the promotion of scientific communication and the next generation of scientists in the field of physics. His wealth of ideas, his energy and his accuracy in using the foundation's funds played an important part in the fact that the DPG developed into the largest physical society in the world during his tenure. |
| Herwig Schopper | 1924– | 2013 | in recognition of his long years of tireless commitment to basic physical research in Germany and Europe, in particular as director of DESY and CERN , where he created the conditions for groundbreaking measurements with the storage rings PETRA and LEP. In addition, as President of the German Physical Society during the period of reunification and the European Physical Society, he made important contributions to strengthening and making physics more visible in Europe. |
| Alexander Bradshaw | 1944– | 2012 | in recognition of his active voluntary and forward-looking commitment to physics and the German Physical Society. Particularly noteworthy is his active role in the conception and planning of the first science year "2000 - Year of Physics" and in the founding of the "New Journal of Physics", one of the first "open access" journals. |
| Gerhard Ertl | 1936– | 2012 | in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of physics and chemistry of surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis. With his work on surface physics and decades of tireless commitment to surface physics in Germany, he has become a pioneer of this physical and chemical discipline in Germany. The new methods he and his colleagues developed, such as photoelectron microscopy, led to breakthroughs in research into the kinetics of molecular reactions on surfaces. |
| Peter Grünberg | 1939-2018 | 2011 | for his discovery of interlayer exchange coupling and the giant magnetoresistance based on it in thin transition metal layers, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007 (together with Albert Fert / Paris), the technical application of which revolutionized magnetic data storage technology and opened up a new field of research - spin electronics, as well as for his journalistic contributions, with which he has contributed significantly to increasing the social reputation of physics in Germany. |
| Theodor Hänsch | 1941– | 2011 | for his pioneering work on laser physics and quantum optics, with which he shaped the research field of cold atoms, particularly through the process of laser cooling, and enabled precision measurements of atomic sizes. With the development of the frequency comb technique, he has also significantly improved the precision of atomic clocks and thus enabled new research work in metrology. |
| Horst Rollnik | 1931-2011 | 2011 | in recognition of his groundbreaking and energetic voluntary work for the German Physical Society and for physics in Germany. The successful restructuring of the statutes with the establishment of the DPG board of directors in the early 1980s as well as its successful commitment to high quality teaching in the diploma courses of all physics faculties in Germany should be emphasized. |
| Peter Egelhaaf | 1938– | 2010 | for his extraordinary voluntary work in the German Physical Society. This is intended to honor in particular his outstanding achievements as an industrial physicist in the DPG and the exercise of honorary posts on the DPG board and DPG board as well as a long-standing member of the advisory committee of industry (BAI, now AIW). |
| Markus Schwoerer | 1937– | 2010 | in recognition of his tireless voluntary work for the German Physical Society and physics. His extraordinary commitment to the organization of the 69th annual conference "Physics since Einstein" as well as his numerous activities in DPG committees and for the physics journal should be emphasized. |
| Herbert Walther | 1935-2006 | 2003 | for his groundbreaking experiments on the interaction of individual atoms or ions with individual photons, with which he co-founded the research area of cavity quantum electrodynamics, for his tireless achievements and successes in developing quantum optics, atomic physics and laser physics in Germany into a flourishing research landscape, as well as for his competent Participation in numerous national and international committees of academic self-administration and advice to politics. |
| Theo Mayer-Kuckuk | 1927-2014 | 2002 | in recognition of his pioneering contributions to nuclear physics as well as for his outstanding services to the German Physical Society, in particular in maintaining and establishing the Magnus House in Berlin for the German Physical Society as a scientific meeting center. |
| Heinz Bethge | 1919-2001 | 2000 | for his scientific achievements in the field of the development of electron microscopic methods and their application to the research of molecular processes on crystal surfaces and in thin layers, for his expertise, his foresight and his sense of proportion in the management of the Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Halle, for his effective promotion of German-German relations as President of the German Academy of Natural Scientists LEOPOLDINA from 1973 to 1990 and for his exemplary commitment as an unconventional advisor in the Physical Society of the GDR and, after unification, in the German Physical Society. |
| Klaus von Klitzing | 1943– | 2000 | for his extraordinary success in researching solids in high magnetic fields, which led to his discovery of the quantized Hall effect, as well as for his tireless and successful basic research in solid-state physics and its public presentation. |
| Werner Buckel | 1920-2003 | 1999 | in recognition of his contributions to physical research in Germany, in particular to low-temperature physics and superconductivity, as well as in appreciation of his great commitment to the German Physical Society and the Physics Center Bad Honnef, his important role in advising the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation and his commitment to the European Physical Society. |
| Heinz Maier-Leibnitz | 1911-2000 | 1989 | in recognition of his contributions to physics and his many years of service to the development of physical research in Germany. In particular, it also recognizes his charisma as a teacher and his tireless activities to promote young physicists, his successful work in the dissemination of scientific findings and his resolute advocacy for international cooperation between scientists and for assuming shared responsibility for the future of our world. |
| Wilhelm Walcher | 1910-2005 | 1989 | in recognition of his many years of service to the development of physical research in Germany as well as his initiative and assistance in rebuilding the German Physical Society after the Second World War. It particularly recognizes his successful work in disseminating scientific knowledge and strengthening the position of the natural sciences in our culture, as well as his resolute advocacy of assuming responsibility for the future of our world. |
| Wilhelm Heinrich Heraeus | 1900-1985 | 1983 | |
| Victor Weisskopf | 1908-2002 | 1983 | |
| Friedrich Hund | 1896-1997 | 1977 | |
| Hermann Ebert | 1896-1983 | 1963 | |
| Alexander Meissner | 1883-1958 | 1957 | |
| Erwin Madelung | 1881-1972 | 1956 | |
| Walter Schottky | 1886-1976 | 1956 | |
| Walther Bothe | 1891-1957 | 1955 | |
| James Franck | 1882-1964 | 1955 | |
| Walther Kossel | 1888-1956 | 1955 | |
| Max Born | 1882-1970 | 1954 | |
| Louis de Broglie | 1892-1987 | 1954 | |
| Max von Laue | 1879-1960 | 1951 | |
| Carl Ramsauer | 1879-1955 | 1951 | |
| Erich Regener | 1881-1955 | 1951 | |
| Ronald GJ Fraser | 1899-1985 | 1949 | |
| Otto Hahn | 1879-1968 | 1948 | |
| Lise Meitner | 1878-1968 | 1948 | |
| Hans Gerdien | 1877-1951 | 1947 | |
| Ludwig Prandtl | 1875-1953 | 1947 | |
| Hermann from Siemens | 1885-1986 | 1947 | |
| Jonathan Zenneck | 1871-1959 | 1947 | |
| Gustav Mie | 1868-1957 | 1938 | |
| Arnold Sommerfeld | 1868-1951 | 1938 | |
| Walther Nernst | 1864-1941 | 1937 | |
| Max Vienna | 1866-1938 | 1937 | |
| Carl von Linde | 1842-1934 | 1932 | |
| Max Planck | 1858-1947 | 1928 | |
| Carl Friedrich von Siemens | 1872-1941 | 1924 | |
| Rudolf Straubel | 1864-1943 | 1924 | |
| Carl Duisberg | 1861-1935 | 1923 | |
| Albert Vögler | 1877-1945 | 1923 | |
| Orest Chwolson | 1852-1934 | 1922 | |
| Eugen Goldstein | 1850-1930 | 1919 | |
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 1845-1923 | 1919 | |
| Karl Scheel | 1866-1936 | 1919 | |
| Emil Warburg | 1846-1931 | 1917 | |
| Georg Quincke | 1834-1924 | 1904 | |
| Emil du Bois-Reymond | 1818-1896 | 1888 |
Web links
Honorary members of the DPG , (accessed on February 26, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Trageser (Hrsg.): Stern – Stunden: Highlights Frankfurter Physik. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 219–229.
- ^ New DPG honorary members Pro Physik, April 4, 2013
- ↑ Tireless commitment - Former DESY director Herwig Schopper becomes DPG honorary member In: DESYinFORM 05 | 13 ( PDF )
- ↑ a b DPG has two new honorary members Pro Physik, March 30, 2012
- ^ A b Peter A. Grünberg is an honorary member of the German Physical Society, press release Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI) in Jülich, March 15, 2011
- ↑ Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch becomes honorary member of the German Physical Society ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, March 18, 2011
- ↑ Heinz Bethge - Short biography of the Heinz Bethge Foundation (accessed on September 24, 2015)
- ^ A b Rudolf Mößbauer and Peter Brix: Laudations for Heinz Maier-Leibnitz and Wilhelm Walcher . In: Physical sheets 45 . July 1989.
- ↑ James Franck: Letter to Karl Wolf (Franck Papers Box 2, Folder 4) . 1955.
- ↑ Biography of Otto Hahn , Collections of the Humboldt University Berlin (accessed September 24, 2015)
- ↑ a b Dieter Hoffmann and Mark Walker (eds.): Physicists between autonomy and adaptation: The German Physical Society in the Third Reich . 2012.
- ^ Otto Glasser: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the history of X-rays . 2012.