Max Born prize
Encyclopedia
The Max Born Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the German Physical Society
(DPG) and the British Institute of Physics
(IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born
. The terms of the award are that it is "to be presented for outstanding contributions to physics
". The award goes to a German and a British physicist 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.
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft is the world's largest organization of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,000, as of 2011...
(DPG) and the British Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
(IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born
Max Born
Max Born was a German-born 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 number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
. The terms of the award are that it is "to be presented for outstanding contributions to physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
". The award goes to a German and a British physicist 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.
List of recipients
The following people received the Max Born Prize:- 1973 Roger CowleyRoger CowleyRoger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstPhys is an English physicist who has specialised in the excitations of solids. He obtained a B.A. in physics from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1963...
- 1974 Walter Greiner
- 1975 Trevor Moss
- 1976 Hermann HakenHermann HakenHermann Haken is physicist and professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics....
- 1977 Walter SpearWalter Eric SpearWalter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays...
- 1978 Herbert WaltherHerbert WaltherProf. Dr. Dr. Herbert Walther was an internationally acclaimed leader in the fields of quantum optics and laser physics. He was born in Ludwigshafen/Rhein in 1935 and died near Munich in 2006. He was a founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. He also...
- 1979 John TaylorJohn Bryan TaylorJohn Bryan Taylor is a British physicist known for his important contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity...
- 1980 Helmut Faissner
- 1981 Cyril DombCyril DombCyril Domb is a physicist best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He is also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on Science and Judaism...
- 1982 Wolfgang Kaiser
- 1983 Andrew KellerAndrew KellerAndrew Keller FRS was a British polymer scientist. He was Research Professor in Polymer Science, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, 1969-91, then Professor Emeritus....
- 1984 Amand Faessler
- 1985 George IsaakGeorge IsaakGeorge Richard Isaak was a Polish Australian physicist, an important figure in the development of helio- and asteroseismology....
- 1986 Josef Stuke
- 1987 Cyril HilsumCyril HilsumCyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP is a British physicist and academic.-Life:He entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of three brothers, leaving in 1943 after being accepted into University College London, where he did his Bsc. In 1945 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific...
- 1988 Peter ArmbrusterPeter ArmbrusterPeter Armbruster is a physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , and 112 with research partner Gottfried Münzenberg.He studied physics at the Technical...
- 1989 Robert Williams
- 1990 Ernst Otto Göbel
- 1991 Gilbert Lonzarich
- 1992 Joachim Heintze
- 1993 David Hanna
- 1994 Wolfgang Demtröder
- 1995 Michael Key
- 1996 Jürgen Mlynek
- 1997 Robin Marshall
- 1998 Gerhard Abstreiter
- 1999 John Dainton
- 2000 Rolf Felst
- 2001 Volker HeineVolker HeineVolker Heine FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist.He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He obtained his PhD in physics in Cambridge as student of Sir Nevill Mott.He was elected Fellow of...
- 2002 Siegfried Dietrich
- 2003 Brian Foster
- 2004 Matthias Scheffler
- 2005 Michael William Finnis
- 2006 Dieter Bimberg
- 2007 Alan D. Martin
- 2008 Hagen KleinertHagen KleinertHagen Kleinert is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany , at theWest University of Timişoara, at thein Bishkek. He is also of the...
- 2009 Robin DevenishRobin DevenishRobin Devenish is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is Dean of Hertford College, and a Fellow and Tutor of Physics. He is known for his work in the field of deep inelastic scattering, and was awarded the Max Born Prize in December 2009 for his work in this field.-Max Born Prize:The Max...
- 2010 Simon WhiteSimon WhiteProfessor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :...
- 2011 David Philip Woodruff