- Source: Max Planck Medal
- Eugene Wigner
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Giorgio Parisi
- Medali Fields
- Victor Weisskopf
- Rudolf Peierls
- Enrico Fermi
- Wolfgang Ketterle
- Paul A.M. Dirac
- Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
- Max Planck Medal
- Max Planck
- Max Planck Society
- Giorgio Parisi
- List of Max Planck Institutes
- Max von Laue
- Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
- Albert Einstein
- Max Born
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics
The Max Planck Medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society (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.
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.
The highest award of the German Physical Society for outstanding results in experimental physics is the Stern–Gerlach Medal.
List of recipients
See also
List of physics awards
Max Planck
References
External links
"Official list of recipients of the Max-Planck medal". German Physical Society (in German). Retrieved March 23, 2021.
"Historical background and present by-law". German Physical Society (in German). Retrieved March 23, 2021.