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Max Planck Medal

The inaugural award: Max Planck (left) presents Albert Einstein (right) with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society, 28 June 1929, in Berlin, Germany.

The Max Planck medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions, and usually to a single person. The winner is awarded with a gold medal and hand-written parchment.[1][2][3]

List of recipients

Max Planck Medal 1943, awarded to Friedrich Hund

See also

  • List of physics awards

References

  1. ^ Official list of recipients of the Max-Planck medal, up to 2021
  2. ^ Videoportraits of some recent recipients, by the German Physical Society
  3. ^ Historical background and present by-law
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