Robert Wichard Pohl Prize

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The Robert Wichard Pohl Prize is an annual prize for physics didactics and experimental physics awarded by the German Physical Society , named after the Göttingen experimental physicist Robert Wichard Pohl , who was particularly known for his innovative experimental physics lectures. It is endowed with prize money of 5000 euros. According to the statutes, it is awarded for special achievements in physics that have a special impact on other disciplines in science and technology, for extraordinary achievements in the dissemination of scientific knowledge, in teaching, teaching and in the didactics of physics. Every four years, the focus of the award is on physics didactics. The prize was donated in 1979.

Award winners

  • 1980 Roman Sexl , known for several textbooks on the theory of relativity
  • 1981 Karl Hecht , physics didactics, founder of the IPN in Kiel
  • 1982 Wilfried Kuhn , 1971 until his retirement in 1991 professor for didactics of physics in Giessen, author of various physics textbooks.
  • 1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz , Karl Alexander Müller , the discoverers of high temperature superconductivity
  • 1988 Hans Gutbrod , Reinhard Stock , for work on heavy ion accelerators, GSI
  • 1989 Wolfgang Paul , Nobel laureate and developer of an ion trap and the quadrupole mass filter
  • 1990 Peter Toschek , professor in Hamburg, spectroscopy on single ions in ion traps
  • 1991 no award
  • 1992 Hans-Christoph Siegmann , ETH Zurich, for work on solid-state spectroscopy with spin-polarized electrons
  • 1993 Bruno Lüthi , until 2000 Prof. in Frankfurt, solid state physics
  • 1994 Gustav Gerber , professor emeritus in Würzburg, control of chemical reactions with femtosecond laser pulses
  • 1995 Wolfgang Eisenmenger , University of Stuttgart, in particular for the development of the ultrasonic shock wave method in medical technology (among other things for breaking up kidney stones).
  • 1996 Wolfgang Helfrich , Martin Schadt , for developing the first commercially successful liquid crystal display.
  • 1997 Anton Oed , development of microstrip gas detectors
  • 1998 Franz Bader , with Friedrich Dorn publisher and author of a textbook collection for physics for middle and high school
  • 1999 Herbert Welling , former director of the Institute for Quantum Optics at the University of Hanover
  • 2000 Dietrich Menzel , Prof. at the Technical University of Munich, for work on chemical physics on metal and semiconductor surfaces.
  • 2001 Werner Martienssen , Prof. at the University of Frankfurt, a. a. for physics didactics.
  • 2002 Hanns Ruder , professor for astrophysics at the University of Tübingen, a. a. for computer simulations on the theory of relativity
  • 2003 Klaas Bergmann , Prof. University of Kaiserslautern, for work on molecular physics (STIRAP method)
  • 2004 Hans-Joachim Wilke , Prof. TU Dresden, for his lecture experiments
  • 2005 Volker Dose , MPI for Plasma Physics, Garching, u. a. for his applications of Bayesian statistics in data analysis
  • 2006 Frank Jülicher , MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, for work on biophysics
  • 2007 Dieter Meschede , Prof. at the University of Bonn, the new editor of the textbook Gerthsen Physik
  • 2008 Hans-Joachim Schlichting , managing director of the Institute for Didactics of Physics, University of Münster
  • 2009 Harald Rose , until his retirement in 2000 professor in Darmstadt, where he also did his doctorate in 1964 under Otto Scherzer , for theoretical contributions to electron optics
  • 2010 Ulrich Platt (University of Heidelberg, Institute for Environmental Physics) for the development of the DOAS procedure in atmospheric physics
  • 2011 Gerhard Meyer (IBM Research Laboratory Rüschlikon), for his groundbreaking research in the field of scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy , which among other things enables chemical processes to be visualized and targeted manipulations at the atomic level.
  • 2012 Volkhard Nordmeier (FU Berlin) for his widely visible didactic research in the field of modern physics, as well as the extraordinary and long-term commitment to teacher training and further education.
  • 2013 Michael Vollmer (FH Brandenburg), whereby in addition to his achievements in physics (infrared thermography, atmospheric optics) his achievements in physics didactics were recognized
  • 2014 Gert Strobl (University of Freiburg) for “his extraordinary achievements in understanding and disseminating scientific knowledge in the field of the physics of polymers and soft matter. His textbooks make a long-term contribution to university teaching. In addition, his scientific contributions show a special impact on chemistry and applied sciences in the field of polymers. "
  • 2015 Robert Moshammer (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) and Reinhard Dörner (Goethe University Frankfurt) for “the development of a new measurement method and groundbreaking work in atomic and molecular physics. The COLTRIMS reaction microscope has opened up completely new research goals not only for physics, but also for chemistry and other related research areas. Her individual and didactically appealing presentation style is unmistakable and transfers her enthusiasm to employees and students to an audience outside the field. "
  • 2016 Christoph Buchal (Research Center Jülich), in “Appreciation of his achievements in conveying physical content to the public, school, university and numerous teacher training courses. Particularly noteworthy is his successful book series on socially relevant, physical topics. Without polarizing and evaluating politically, topics such as climate and energy are presented in a scientifically correct and easily legible manner in his books. "
  • 2017 Metin Tolan (Technical University Dortmund): “In recognition of his services in disseminating scientific knowledge and ways of thinking to the interested public. He has developed new formats for this, which he conveys with great didactic skill. Regardless of their age and educational background, their reading, watching or listening audience will be drawn under the spell of supposedly simple questions based on everyday topics, and Tolan's answers to these questions include the findings of current physics - including the results of his own top-class research - in a fascinating way. "
  • 2018 Hartmut Wiesner (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich): “... for his outstanding contribution to research and development in physics education over the past 40 years. In addition to his top-class, solid empirically proven research results, which affect all school levels up to university didactics, he paid special attention to the creation of practice-relevant teaching material and thus enriched physics lessons in a sustainable and didactically meaningful way. "
  • 2019 Markus Arndt (University of Vienna): "... for his outstanding contributions to the development, demonstration and application of matter wave interferometry with macromolecules, which convey the elementary laws of quantum physics in a unique way for both experts and a broad audience. His methods also open up new applications in the field of molecular spectroscopy. "
  • 2020 Heinz-Jürgen Kluge (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): “... for his groundbreaking experiments and precision measurements in the field of atomic and nuclear physics, which are used worldwide today. He has not only proven to be a brilliant researcher, but also a motivating teacher. His creative social commitment was also shown in the establishment of symposia for schoolchildren. "

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