Max Planck Medal

The Max Planck medal is an award which is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical physics since 1929 annually by the German Physical Society ( DPG). This award is considered the most important in this subject in Germany. It consists of a certificate and a gold medal with the portrait of Max Planck.

The procurement of the Planck Medal in 1943 was a problem, since the Berlin foundry was hit by a bomb. The Executive Board of the German Physical Society decided to first prepare the medals in a replacement metal and nachzuliefern later in gold.

Award winners

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Louis de Broglie Friedrich Hund Max Born Otto Hahn James Franck Gustav Ludwig Hertz Enrico Fermi Oskar Klein Samuel Goudsmit George Uhlenbeck Harry Lehmann Freeman Dyson Rudolf Haag Nikolay Bogolyubov Gregor Wentzel Walter Thirring Paul Peter Ewald Markus Fierz Kurt Symanzik Nicholas Kemmer Res Jost Franz Wegner Julius Wess Valentine Bargmann Bruno Zumino Hermann Haken Wolfhart Zimmermann Elliott H. Lieb Kurt Binder Gerald E. Brown Martin Gutzwiller Klaus Hepp Peter Zoller Joel Lebowitz Detlev Buchholz Robert Graham (physicist) Dieter Vollhardt Giorgio Parisi Werner Nahm David Ruelle
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