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The Max Planck medal is an award for extraordinary achievements in Theoretical Physics. It is awarded annually by the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).
List of Nominees
- 1929 Max Planck and Albert Einstein
- 1930 Niels Bohr
- 1931 Arnold Sommerfeld
- 1932 Max von Laue
- 1933 Werner Heisenberg
- 1934 - 1936 not assigned
- 1937 Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger ( August 12, 1887 January 4, 1961) was an Austrian physicist famous for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrodinger equation, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1933. He proposed the Schrodi
- 1938Events January -June January 3 The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 Wedding of king Farouk I of Egypt and Farida Zulficar in Cai Louis de Broglie
- 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26 - 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St not assigned
- 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass Pascual Jordan
- 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1 Friedrich HundFriedrich Hund ( February 4, 1896 March 31, 1997) was a German physicist best known for his work on the structure of atoms and molecules. Hund taught and did research at German universities (Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Gottingen) exclus
- 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin; Walther Kossel
- 1945 - 1947 not assigned
- 1948 Max Born
- 1949 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
- 1950 Peter Debye
- 1951 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
- 1952 Paul Dirac
- 1953 Walther Bothe
- 1954 Enrico Fermi
- 1955 Hans Bethe
- 1956 Victor Weisskopf
- 1957 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- 1958 Wolfgang Pauli
- 1959 Oskar Klein
- 1960 Lew Landau
- 1961 Eugene Wigner
- 1962 Ralph Kronig
- 1963 Rudolf Peierls
- 1964 Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck
- 1965 - not assigned
- 1966 Gerhard Lüders
- 1967 Harry Lehmann
- 1968 Walter Heitler
- 1969 Freeman Dyson
- 1970 Rudolf Haag
- 1971 not assigned
- 1972 Herbert Fröhlich
- 1973 Nikolai Bogolubov
- 1974 Léon van Hove
- 1975 Gregor Wentzel
- 1976 Ernst Stueckelberg
- 1977 Walter Thirring
- 1978 Paul Ewald
- 1979 Marcus Fierz
- 1980 not assigned
- 1981 Kurt Symanzik
- 1982 Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
- 1983 Nicholas Kemmer
- 1984 Res Jost
- 1985 Yoichiro Nambu
- 1986 Franz Wegner
- 1987 Julius Wess
- 1988 Valentine Bargmann
- 1989 Bruno Zumino
- 1990 Hermann Haken
- 1991 Wolfhart Zimmermann
- 1992 Elliott H. Lieb
- 1993 Kurt Binder
- 1994 Hans-Jürgen Borchers
- 1995 Siegfried Großmann
- 1996 Ludwig Faddejew
- 1997 Gerald Brown
- 1998 Raymond Stora
- 1999 Pierre Hohenberg
- 2000 Martin Lüscher
- 2001 Jürg Fröhlich
- 2002 Jürgen Ehlers
- 2003 Martin Gutzweiser
- 2004 Klaus Hepp
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