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{{Short description|Physics award}} [[Image:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The inaugural award: [[Max Planck]] (left) presents [[Albert Einstein]] (right) with the Max Planck medal of the [[Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft|German Physical Society]], 28 June 1929, in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]].]] The '''Max Planck Medal''' is the highest award of the [[German Physical Society]] {{lang|de|(Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)}}, the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in [[theoretical physics]]. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions, and usually to a single person. The winner is awarded with a gold medal and hand-written parchment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille/preistraeger|title=Official list of recipients of the Max-Planck medal|website=German Physical Society|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille/videoportraits|title=Videoportraits of some recent recipients|website=German Physical Society|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref><ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille|title=Historical background and present by-law|website=German Physical Society|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref> In 1943 it was not possible to manufacture the gold medal because the [[Berlin]] foundry was hit by a bomb. The board of directors of the German Physical Society decided to manufacture the medals in a substitute metal and to deliver the gold medals later.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teleschach.de/archiv/ehrungen_f_hund.htm#mp|title=Replacement of the Max Planck Medal in 1943|website=teleschach.de|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Walter Grotrian|chapter=Verleihung der Planck-Medaille an Pascual Jordan und Friedrich Hund|title=Verhandlungen der deutschen physikalischen Gesellschaft|publisher=Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn|page=20|date=April 30, 1943|language=de}}</ref> The highest award of the German Physical Society for outstanding results in experimental physics is the [[Stern–Gerlach Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web|language=de|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/stern-gerlach-medaille|title=Medaglia Stern-Gerlach|access-date=March 23, 2021|website=German Physical Society}}</ref> ==List of recipients== {{cols|colwidth=21em}} *2025 [[Reinhard F. Werner]] *2024 [[Erwin Frey (physicist)|Erwin Frey]] *2023 [[Rashid A. Sunyaev]] *2022 [[Annette Zippelius]] *2021 [[Alexander Markovich Polyakov]] *2020 [[Andrzej Buras]] *2019 [[Detlef Lohse]] *2018 [[Juan Ignacio Cirac]] *2017 [[Herbert Spohn]] *2016 [[Herbert Wagner (physicist)|Herbert Wagner]] *2015 [[Viatcheslav Mukhanov]] *2014 [[David Ruelle]] *2013 [[Werner Nahm]] *2012 [[Martin Zirnbauer]] *2011 [[Giorgio Parisi]] *2010 [[Dieter Vollhardt]] *2009 [[Robert Graham (physicist)|Robert Graham]] *2008 [[Detlev Buchholz]] *2007 [[Joel Lebowitz]] *2006 [[Wolfgang Götze]] *2005 [[Peter Zoller]] *2004 [[Klaus Hepp]] *2003 [[Martin Gutzwiller]] *2002 [[Jürgen Ehlers]] *2001 [[Jürg Fröhlich]] *2000 [[Martin Lüscher]] *1999 [[Pierre Hohenberg]] *1998 [[Raymond Stora]] *1997 [[Gerald E. Brown]] *1996 [[Ludvig Faddeev]] *1995 [[Siegfried Grossmann]] *1994 [[Hans-Jürgen Borchers]] *1993 [[Kurt Binder]] *1992 [[Elliott H. Lieb]] *1991 [[Wolfhart Zimmermann]] *1990 [[Hermann Haken]] *1989 [[Bruno Zumino]] *1988 [[Valentine Bargmann]] *1987 [[Julius Wess]] *1986 [[Franz Wegner]] *1985 [[Yoichiro Nambu]] *1984 [[Res Jost]] *1983 [[Nicholas Kemmer]] *1982 [[Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller]] *1981 [[Kurt Symanzik]] *1980 ''not awarded'' *1979 [[Markus Fierz]] *1978 [[Paul Peter Ewald]] *1977 [[Walter Thirring]] *1976 [[Ernst Stueckelberg]] *1975 [[Gregor Wentzel]] *1974 [[Léon Van Hove]] *1973 [[Nikolay Bogolyubov]] *1972 [[Herbert Fröhlich]] *1971 ''not awarded'' *1970 [[Rudolf Haag]] *1969 [[Freeman Dyson]] *1968 [[Walter Heitler]] *1967 [[Harry Lehmann]] *1966 [[Gerhart Lüders]] *1965 ''not awarded'' *1964 [[Samuel Goudsmit]] and [[George Uhlenbeck]] *1963 [[Rudolf Peierls]] *1962 [[Ralph Kronig]] *1961 [[Eugene Wigner]] *1960 [[Lev Landau]] *1959 [[Oskar Klein]] *1958 [[Wolfgang Pauli]] *1957 [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]] *1956 [[Victor Weisskopf]] *1955 [[Hans Bethe]] *1954 [[Enrico Fermi]] *1953 [[Walther Bothe]] *1952 [[Paul Dirac]] *1951 [[James Franck]] and [[Gustav Hertz]] *1950 [[Peter Debye]] *1949 [[Lise Meitner]] and [[Otto Hahn]] *1948 [[Max Born]] *1945–1947 ''not awarded'' *1944 [[Walther Kossel]] *1943 [[Friedrich Hund]] *1942 [[Pascual Jordan]] *1939–1941 ''not awarded'' *1938 [[Louis de Broglie]] *1937 [[Erwin Schrödinger]] *1934–1936 ''not awarded'' *1933 [[Werner Heisenberg]] *1932 [[Max von Laue]] *1931 [[Arnold Sommerfeld]] *1930 [[Niels Bohr]] *1929 [[Max Planck]] and [[Albert Einstein]] {{div col end}} ==See also== {{Portal|Physics}} * [[List of physics awards]] * [[Max Planck]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille/preistraeger|title=Official list of recipients of the Max-Planck medal|website=German Physical Society|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille|title=Historical background and present by-law|website=German Physical Society|language=de|access-date=March 23, 2021}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Planck Medal}} [[Category:Awards of the German Physical Society]] [[Category:Awards established in 1929]] [[Category:1929 establishments in Germany]]
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