Max Planck Medal
The Max Planck Medal is an award that has been presented annually by the German Physical Society (DPG) since 1929 for special achievements in the field of theoretical physics . This award is considered to be the most important in this subject in Germany. It consists of a certificate and a gold medal with a portrait of Max Planck .
The corresponding highest award of the DPG for achievements in the field of experimental physics is the Stern-Gerlach-Medal .
Obtaining the Planck Medal was a problem in 1943 when the Berlin foundry was hit by a bomb. The board of directors of the German Physical Society decided to first manufacture the medals in a substitute metal and later to deliver them in gold.
Award winners
- 1929: Max Planck and Albert Einstein
- 1930: Niels Bohr
- 1931: Arnold Sommerfeld
- 1932: Max von Laue
- 1933: Werner Heisenberg
- 1934–1936: no award
- 1937: Erwin Schrödinger
- 1938: Louis-Victor de Broglie
- 1939–1941: no award
- 1942: Pascual Jordan
- 1943: Friedrich Hund
- 1944: Walther Kossel
- 1945–1947: no award
- 1948: Max Born
- 1949: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
- 1950: Peter Debye
- 1951: James Franck and Gustav Hertz
- 1952: Paul Dirac
- 1953: Walther Bothe
- 1954: Enrico Fermi
- 1955: Hans Bethe
- 1956: Victor Weisskopf
- 1957: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- 1958: Wolfgang Pauli
- 1959: Oskar Klein
- 1960: Lev Dawidowitsch Landau
- 1961: Eugene Paul Wigner
- 1962: Ralph Kronig
- 1963: Rudolf Peierls
- 1964: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit and George Eugene Uhlenbeck
- 1965: no award
- 1966: Gerhart Lüders
- 1967: Harry Lehmann - quantum field theory
- 1968: Walter Heitler
- 1969: Freeman Dyson
- 1970: Rudolf Haag - quantum field theory
- 1971: no award
- 1972: Herbert Fröhlich
- 1973: Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Bogolyubov
- 1974: Léon Van Hove
- 1975: Gregor Wentzel
- 1976: Ernst Carl Gerlach Stückelberg
- 1977: Walter Thirring
- 1978: Paul Peter Ewald
- 1979: Markus Fierz
- 1980: no award
- 1981: Kurt Symanzik - quantum field theory
- 1982: Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
- 1983: Nicholas Kemmer
- 1984: Res Jost
- 1985: Yōichirō Nambu
- 1986: Franz Wegner
- 1987: Julius Wess
- 1988: Valentine Bargmann
- 1989: Bruno Zumino
- 1990: Hermann Haken
- 1991: Wolfhart Zimmermann - quantum field theory
- 1992: Elliott H. Lieb
- 1993: Kurt Binder
- 1994: Hans-Jürgen Borchers
- 1995: Siegfried Großmann
- 1996: Ludwig Dmitrijewitsch Faddejew
- 1997: Gerald Brown
- 1998: Raymond Stora
- 1999: Pierre Hohenberg
- 2000: Martin Lüscher
- 2001: Jürg Fröhlich
- 2002: Jürgen Ehlers - Contributions to Einstein's theory of gravity
- 2003: Martin Gutzwiller - Quantum Theory of Metals
- 2004: Klaus Hepp - contributions to laser physics, quantum theory and neuroscience
- 2005: Peter Zoller - Interaction between laser light and atoms
- 2006: Wolfgang Götze - mode coupling theory of the glass transition
- 2007: Joel Lebowitz - Contributions to the statistical physics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems
- 2008: Detlev Buchholz - contributions to quantum field theory
- 2009: Robert Graham - Contributions to Quantum Optics
- 2010: Dieter Vollhardt - Contributions to solid state physics
- 2011: Giorgio Parisi - contributions to theoretical elementary particle physics, quantum field theory and statistical physics
- 2012: Martin Zirnbauer - Contributions to mathematical physics
- 2013: Werner Nahm - mathematical foundations of quantum field theories
- 2014: David Ruelle - "For his fundamental contributions to the relativistic quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and theory of dynamic systems with applications to the problem of the onset of turbulence."
- 2015: Vyacheslav Mukhanov - "In recognition of his fundamental contributions to cosmology and in particular to structure formation due to quantum fluctuations in the early universe."
- 2016: Herbert Wagner - "In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of phase transitions - especially in low-dimensional, magnetic systems - and the dynamics of critical phenomena."
- 2017: Herbert Spohn - "In recognition of his significant contributions to statistical physics with regard to the elucidation of the transition from microscopic physics to macroscopic behavior."
- 2018: Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain - "... for his outstanding contributions in the field of quantum information theory and quantum optics."
- 2019: Detlef Lohse - "... in recognition of his significant theoretical contributions to the understanding of single bubble sonoluminescence and the physics of turbulent flows."
- 2020: Andrzej J. Buras - "... for his outstanding contributions to applied quantum field theory of fundamental interactions, especially in the field of flavor physics and quantum chromodynamics."
See also
Web links
- Bearer of the Max Planck Medal on dpg-physik.de
- Statute of the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Special meeting of the German Physical Society on April 30, 1943: Presentation of the Planck Medal to Pascual Jordan and Friedrich Hund . Negotiations of the German Physical Society, 3rd series, 24th year, April 30, 1943. Planck booklet . Grotrian, Walter (editor). - Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 20 p. (1943)
- ^ The Max Planck Medal made of substitute metal was awarded to Friedrich Hund in 1943