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The Max Born Medal and Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the 
German Physical Society
The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. As of 2022, the DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 52,220, making it one of the largest national physics societies in the world. The DPG's membership peaked ...
(DPG) and the British Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
(IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born
Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a ...
, who was a German-Jewish physicist, instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...
. It was established in 1972, and first awarded in 1973.
The terms of the award are that it is "to be presented for outstanding contributions to physics
Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...
". The award goes to physicists based in Germany and in the UK or Ireland in alternate years. The prize is accompanied by a silver medal "about 6 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm thick. One face carries a profile of Max Born and his name and dates. The other face carries the equation pq – qp = h/2πi and the full names of IOP and DPG. The recipient's full name and year of award is engraved around the rim." The medal is accompanied by €3000.
List of recipients
The following have received this award: *1973 Roger Cowley *1974Walter Greiner
Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German theoretical physicist and professor of the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests lay in atomic physics, heavy ion physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physic ...
*1975 Trevor Moss
*1976 Hermann Haken
*1977 Walter Spear
*1978 Herbert Walther
Herbert Walther (January 19, 1935 in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany – July 22, 2006 in Munich) was a leader in the fields of quantum optics and laser physics. He was a founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garchin ...
*1979 John Taylor
*1980
*1981 Cyril Domb
*1982 Wolfgang Kaiser
*1983 Andrew Keller
*1984
*1985 George Isaak
*1986
*1987 Cyril Hilsum
*1988 Peter Armbruster
*1989 Robert H. Williams
*1990
*1991 Gilbert Lonzarich
*1992
*1993 David C. Hanna
*1994 Wolfgang Demtröder
*1995 Michael H Key
*1996 Jürgen Mlynek
Jürgen Mlynek (born 15 March 1951, in Gronau, Lower Saxony) is a German physicist and was president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres from 2005 to 2015.
Biography
Mlynek studied physics from 1970 to 1976 at the Techni ...
*1997 Robin Marshall
*1998 Gerhard Abstreiter
*1999 John Dainton
*2000
*2001 Volker Heine
*2002
*2003 Brian Foster
*2004 Matthias Scheffler
*2005
*2006
*2007 Alan D. Martin
*2008 Hagen Kleinert
Hagen Kleinert (born 15 June 1941) is professor of theoretical physics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (since 1968)Honorary Doctorat the
West University of Timișoaraandat thin Bishkek. He is alsHonorary Memberof th For his contributio ...
*2009 Robin Devenish
*2010 Simon White
*2011 David Philip Woodruff
*2012 Martin Bodo Plenio
*2013
*2014
*2015 Andrea Cavalleri
*2016 Christian Pfleiderer
*2017 Carlos Silvestre Frenk
*2018 Ángel Rubio
Ángel Rubio (born 27 September 1965 in Oviedo) is a Spanish theoretical physicist and director at the List of Max Planck Institutes, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg. Rubio is also a Distinguished Research S ...
*2019 Michael Coey
*2020 Anna Köhler
*2021 Hiranya Peiris
Hiranya Vajramani Peiris is a British astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, where she holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909). She is best known for her work on the cosmic microwave background radiation, and interdisciplinary link ...
*2022 Claudia Felser
Claudia Felser (28 July 1962) is a German solid state chemist and materials scientist. She is currently a director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Felser was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering ...
*2023
*2024 Ingrid Mertig
*2025 Michael Johnston
See also
* Institute of Physics Awards *List of physics awards
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
* List of awards named after people
This is a list of awards that are named after people.
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See also
*Lists of awards
*List of eponyms
*List of awards named after governors-g ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Born Prize Awards established in 1973 Awards of the Institute of Physics Awards of the German Physical Society Physics awards Max Born