The Carl Hermann Medal is the highest award in the field of crystallography from the

German Crystallographic Society The German Crystallographic Society (''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie'', or DGK in German) is a non-profit organization based in Berlin. As a voluntary association of scientists working in crystallography or interested in crystallograp ...

. It is named after the German physicist and professor of crystallography

Carl Hermann Carl Heinrich Hermann (17 June 1898 – 12 September 1961), or Carl Hermann , was a German physicist and crystallographer known for his research in crystallographic symmetry, nomenclature, and mathematical crystallography in N-dimensional spa ...

, who along with

Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald, FRS (January 23, 1888 in Berlin, Germany – August 22, 1985 in Ithaca, New York) was a German crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods. Education Ewald received his early education in the class ...

, created the

Strukturbericht designation In crystallography, a Strukturbericht designation or Strukturbericht type is a system of detailed crystal structure classification by analogy to another known structure. The designations were intended to be comprehensive but are mainly used as suppl ...

system for crystallographic prototypes. The medal is awarded annually during the annual meeting of the society

Carl Hermann Medal recipients

* 1996

Gerhard Borrmann Gerhard Borrmann (30 April 1908 – 12 April 2006) was a German physicist. He was born in Diedenhofen, then part of Germany, and received his early education there. He continued his secondary school at Gießen, where he apprenticed at a steel ...

* 1997 Hartmut Bärnighausen * 1998 Siegfried Haussühl * 1999

George Sheldrick George Michael Sheldrick, FRS (born 17 November 1942, in Huddersfield, England) is a British chemist who specialises in molecular structure determination. He is one of the most cited workers in the field, having over 280,000 citations as of 202 ...

* 2000

Heinz Jagodzinski Heinz Ernst Jagodzinski (20 April 1916 in Aschersleben – 22 November 2012 in Munich) was a German physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer known for his research in disordered materials and diffuse X-ray scattering. He also introduced the ...

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