Lorentz Medal
The Lorentz Medal or Lorentz Medal is a prize awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . The medal was created in 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the awarding of a doctorate to Hendrik Antoon Lorentz . The first prize winner was the German Max Planck .
The Lorentz Medal is awarded every four years for important contributions to theoretical physics . Almost half (10 out of 21) of the winners later won a Nobel Prize in physics or chemistry; Max Planck had already received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 .
Award winners
- 1927: Max Planck (1918 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- 1931: Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize in Physics 1945)
- 1935: Peter Debye ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936)
- 1939: Arnold Sommerfeld
- 1947: Hendrik Anthony Kramers
- 1953: Fritz London
- 1958: Lars Onsager (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968)
- 1962: Rudolf Peierls
- 1966: Freeman Dyson
- 1970: George Eugene Uhlenbeck
- 1974: John H. van Vleck (Nobel Prize in Physics 1977)
- 1978: Nicolaas Bloembergen (1981 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- 1982: Anatole Abragam
- 1986: Gerardus' t Hooft (Nobel Prize in Physics 1999)
- 1990: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Nobel Prize in Physics 1991)
- 1994: Alexander Markowitsch Polyakow
- 1998: Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell (both 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- 2002: Frank Wilczek (2004 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- 2006: Leo Kadanoff
- 2010: Edward Witten
- 2014: Michael Berry
- 2018: Juan Martín Maldacena
Web links
- University of Leiden : Lorentz medal - page at the Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics (lorentz.leidenuniv.nl)
- Lorentz Medal - page of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (= "Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences")