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. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,547, as of 2019, making it the largest physics society in the world. It holds an annual conference () and multiple ...

(DPG) and the British

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...

(IOP) in memory of the German physicist

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician 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 a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, q ...

. 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 natural science that studies matter, its 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 which rel ...

". 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 Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstP (24 February 1939 – 27 January 2015) was an English physicist who specialised in the excitations of solids. Biography Cowley was born in Woodford Green, Essex, on 24 February 1939. His father, Cecil ...

*1974

Walter Greiner Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German theoretical physicist. His research interests lay in atomic physics, heavy ion physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics (particularly in quantum electrodynamics and quant ...

*1975 Trevor Moss *1976

Hermann Haken Hermann Haken (born 12 July 1927) is physicist and professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics. He is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four c ...

*1977 Walter Spear *1978 Herbert Walther *1979

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*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 Gilbert "Gil" George Lonzarich (born 1945) is a solid-state physicist who works at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is particularly noted for his work on superconducting and magnetic materials. Life Lonzarich receive ...

*1992 *1993

David C. Hanna David Colin Hanna FRS (born 1941) is a British physicist specializing in laser physics and nonlinear optics. He is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Southampton. His research interests include quasi-phase-matched nonlinear ...

*1994 Wolfgang Demtröder *1995 Michael H Key *1996 Jürgen Mlynek *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 *2009

Robin Devenish Robin Devenish is a retired physicist at the University of Oxford. An Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Devenish is a former Dean of Hertford College, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor of Physics. He is known for his work in the field of ...

*2010

Simon White Simon David Manton White (born 30 September 1951), FRS, is a British astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019. Life White studied Mathematics at Jesus College ...

*2011 David Philip Woodruff *2012 Martin Bodo Plenio *2013 *2014 *2015 Andrea Cavalleri *2016

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*2017 Carlos Silvestre Frenk *2018

Angel Rubio Angel Rubio (born April 12, 1975) is a former American football defensive end who played one season with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the seventh round of the 1998 NFL D ...

*2019 Michael Coey *2020 Anna Köhler *2021 Hiranya Peiris *2022

Claudia Felser Claudia Felser (28 July 1962 in Aachen) 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 En ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Born Prize Awards established in 1973 Awards of the Institute of Physics Awards of the German Physical Society Physics awards Max Born

List of recipients

See also

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