The Stern–Gerlach Medal is the most prestigious prize for experimental physicists awarded 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 ...

. It is named after the scientists of the

Stern–Gerlach experiment In quantum physics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantization (physics), quantized. Thus an Atomic spacing, atomic-scale system was shown to have intrinsically quantum propertie ...

Otto Stern :''Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895)''. Otto Stern (; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German-American physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Pri ...

and

Walther Gerlach Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceived by Otto Stern in 1921 an ...

. It was originally called the Stern–Gerlach Prize, and has been awarded annually since 1988. It was converted into a medal in 1992. The highest award of the German Physical Society for theoretical physics is the

Max Planck Medal The Max Planck Medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society , the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions ...

Laureates

* 1988 * 1989 * 1990 (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau) * 1991 Dirk Dubbers und * 1992 Wolfgang Krätschmer * 1993 * 1994 Wolfgang Kaiser * 1995 * 1996

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (28 March 1911, in Esslingen am Neckar – 16 December 2000, in Allensbach) was a German physicist. He made contributions to nuclear spectroscopy, coincidence measurement techniques, radioactive tracers for biochemistry and m ...

* 1997

Peter Armbruster Peter Armbruster (25 July 1931 – 26 June 2024Mourning Peter Armbruster
- GS ...

* 1998

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 ...

* 1999 * 2000

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb ...

* 2001 Achim Richter * 2002 Jan Peter Toennies * 2003

Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel (; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded th ...

* 2004

Frank Steglich Frank Steglich (born 14 March 1941) is a German physicist and the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. Education and career Steglich was born in Dresden and studied physics in the Univer ...

* 2005

Bogdan Povh Bogdan Povh (20 August 1932 – 14 February 2024) was a Slovene-German physicist. Biography Povh studied physics at the University of Ljubljana, graduating in 1955. From 1957 to 1959 he joined the group of the later Nobel laureate William A. Fow ...

* 2006

Erich Sackmann Erich Sackmann (26 November 1934 – 29 May 2024) was a German experimental physicist and a pioneer of biophysics in Europe. Education Sackmann obtained his MSc (1961) and PhD (1964) degrees from the University of Stuttgart in the group of T ...

* 2007

Peter Grünberg Peter Andreas Grünberg (; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drive ...

* 2008 * 2009

Friedrich Wagner Friedrich E. Wagner (born November 16, 1943, sometimes abbreviated as Fritz Wagner) is a German physicist and emeritus professor who specializes in plasma physics. He was known to have discovered the high-confinement mode (i.e. H-mode) of magn ...

* 2010 * 2011 * 2012 Rainer Blatt * 2013

Dieter Pohl Dieter Pohl (born 1964) is a German historian and author who specialises in the Eastern European history and the history of mass violence in the 20th century. Education and career Dieter Pohl studied history and political science at the Ludwig ...

* 2014 Gerhard Abstreiter * 2015 Karl Jakobs * 2016 Werner Hofmann * 2017 Laurens Molenkamp * 2018 * 2019 , Johanna Stachel * 2020 Dieter Bimberg * 2021 Joachim Ullrich * 2022 Frank Eisenhauer * 2023 Manfred Fiebig * 2024

Immanuel Bloch Immanuel Bloch (born 16 November 1972, Fulda) is a German experimental physicist. His research is focused on the investigation of quantum many-body systems using ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases. Bloch is known for his work on atoms ...

* 2025 Klaus Blaum

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