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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 an award for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. It is awarded annually by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German: German Physical Society), the world's largest organization of physicists.

[edit] List of recipients

• 1929 Max Planck and Albert Einstein
• 1930 Niels Bohr
• 1931 Arnold Sommerfeld
• 1932 Max von Laue
• 1933 Werner Heisenberg
• 1934 - 1936 not assigned
• 1937 Erwin Schrödinger
• 1938 Louis de Broglie
• 1939 - 1941 not assigned
• 1942 Pascual Jordan
• 1943 Friedrich Hund
• 1944 Walther Kossel
• 1945 - 1947 not assigned
• 1948 Max Born
• 1949 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
• 1950 Peter Debye
• 1951 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
• 1952 Paul Dirac
• 1953 Walther Bothe
• 1954 Enrico Fermi
• 1955 Hans Bethe
• 1956 Victor Weisskopf
• 1957 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• 1958 Wolfgang Pauli
• 1959 Oskar Klein
• 1960 Lew Landau
• 1961 Eugene Wigner
• 1962 Ralph Kronig
• 1963 Rudolf Peierls
• 1964 Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck
• 1965 - not assigned
• 1966 Gerhard Lüders
• 1967 Harry Lehmann
• 1968 Walter Heitler
• 1969 Freeman Dyson
• 1970 Rudolf Haag
• 1971 not assigned
• 1972 Herbert Fröhlich
• 1973 Nikolai Bogolubov
• 1974 Léon van Hove
• 1975 Gregor Wentzel
• 1976 Ernst Stueckelberg
• 1977 Walter Thirring
• 1978 Paul Peter Ewald
• 1979 Markus Fierz
• 1980 not assigned
• 1981 Kurt Symanzik
• 1982 Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
• 1983 Nicholas Kemmer
• 1984 Res Jost
• 1985 Yoichiro Nambu
• 1986 Franz Wegner
• 1987 Julius Wess
• 1988 Valentine Bargmann
• 1989 Bruno Zumino
• 1990 Hermann Haken
• 1991 Wolfhart Zimmermann
• 1992 Elliott H. Lieb
• 1993 Kurt Binder
• 1994 Hans-Jürgen Borchers
• 1995 Siegfried Großmann
• 1996 Ludvig Faddeev
• 1997 Gerald E. Brown
• 1998 Raymond Stora
• 1999 Pierre Hohenberg
• 2000 Martin Lüscher
• 2001 Jürg Fröhlich
• 2002 Jürgen Ehlers
• 2003 Martin Gutzwiller
• 2004 Klaus Hepp
• 2005 Peter Zoller
• 2006 Wolfgang Götze
• 2007 Joel Lebowitz
• 2008 Detlev Buchholz
• 2009 Robert Graham (physicist)
• 2010 Dieter Vollhardt