UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
The UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal was first struck in 1985 to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr . The UNESCO awards the medal to those whose research has made outstanding contributions to physics.
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The medal was designed by the Swedish artist Siv Holme and minted in gold, silver and bronze by the Paris Mint . On the front, Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize winner from 1922, is repeated six times in the partial profile. The reverse shows a drawing of Bohr's model of the atom as well as the corresponding formula and the scientist's signature. In addition, the inscription “Contraria sunt complementa” (opposites complement each other) of the principle of complementarity from quantum physics is engraved on the right.
Award winners
- 1998
- Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (Center for Liquid Crystal Research, Bangalore, India)
- Vitaly Ginzburg ( PN Lebedev Institute , Moscow, Russia)
- Walter Kohn ( University of California , Sanata Barbara, USA)
- Alexander Polyakov ( Princeton University , USA)
- 2005
- Martin Rees ( Trinity College , Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Herwig Schopper (CERN, Switzerland)
- Peter Zoller ( University of Innsbruck )
- 2010
- John Pendry ( Imperial College London , United Kingdom)
- Timothy Berners-Lee ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge [Ma], USA)
- Kip S. Thorne ( California Institute of Technology , USA)
- 2013
- Alain Aspect (France)
- CERN (represented by Rolf-Dieter Heuer , Switzerland)
- Jimmy Wales (USA)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Niels Bohr (1885-1962) - (1985). United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, accessed May 29, 2017 .