Medal for scientific journalism
The medal for scientific journalism of the German Physical Society (DPG) is awarded annually for journalistic achievements in the field of science and physics. The award is not endowed and associated with a silver medal. It will be presented on the annual DPG Physics Day in autumn.
Award winners
- 1985 Hans-Joachim Queisser
- 1988 Robert Gerwin
- 1990 Jochen Fricke
- 1993 Joachim Bublath
- 1994 Harald Fritzsch
- 1995 Image of Science
- 1996 Rudolf Kippenhahn
- 1997 Rainer Flöhl
- 1998 Ernst Dreisigacker , Helmut Lotsch
- 2001 Knut Urban
- 2002 Peter Lustig
- 2003 Ranga Yogeshwar
- 2004 Ernst Peter Fischer
- 2005 Harald Lesch
- 2006 Hanns Ruder
- 2007 Eberhard Wassermann , Axel Carl in particular for the organization of the Highlights of Physics initiative
- 2008 The show with the mouse
- 2009 Eckhard Heybrock for the Faszination Licht initiative
- 2010 Hildegard Werth , journalist at ZDF (own program WissensWERTH on the ZDF info channel).
- 2011 Günter Paul
- 2012 for Die Physikanten & Co. (physics shows)
- 2013 Thomas Bührke , Roland Wengenmayr both at Physics in Our Time (Bührke as editor-in-chief)
- 2014 Albrecht Beutelspacher for science journalism in mathematics and its applications, founder of the Mathematikum in Gießen
- 2015 Stefan Jorda , long-time editor and editor-in-chief of the Physik Journal
- 2016 Editing of current research at Deutschlandfunk (especially articles on physics by Ralf Krauter , Frank Grotelüschen )
- 2017 Christiane Götz-Sobel
- 2018 Alexander Gerst