Max Planck Medal

In 1943 it was not possible to manufacture the gold medal because the Berlin foundry was hit by a bomb. The board of directors of the German Physical Society decided to manufacture the medals in a substitute metal and to deliver the gold medals later.

The highest award of the German Physical Society for outstanding results in experimental physics is the Stern–Gerlach Medal.

List of recipients

• 2026 Kurt Kremer
• 2025 Reinhard F. Werner
• 2024 Erwin Frey
• 2023 Rashid A. Sunyaev
• 2022 Annette Zippelius
• 2021 Alexander Markovich Polyakov
• 2020 Andrzej Buras
• 2019 Detlef Lohse
• 2018 Juan Ignacio Cirac
• 2017 Herbert Spohn
• 2016 Herbert Wagner
• 2015 Viatcheslav Mukhanov
• 2014 David Ruelle
• 2013 Werner Nahm
• 2012 Martin Zirnbauer
• 2011 Giorgio Parisi
• 2010 Dieter Vollhardt
• 2009 Robert Graham
• 2008 Detlev Buchholz
• 2007 Joel Lebowitz
• 2006 Wolfgang Götze
• 2005 Peter Zoller
• 2004 Klaus Hepp
• 2003 Martin Gutzwiller
• 2002 Jürgen Ehlers
• 2001 Jürg Fröhlich
• 2000 Martin Lüscher
• 1999 Pierre Hohenberg
• 1998 Raymond Stora
• 1997 Gerald E. Brown
• 1996 Ludvig Faddeev
• 1995 Siegfried Grossmann
• 1994 Hans-Jürgen Borchers
• 1993 Kurt Binder
• 1992 Elliott H. Lieb
• 1991 Wolfhart Zimmermann
• 1990 Hermann Haken
• 1989 Bruno Zumino
• 1988 Valentine Bargmann
• 1987 Julius Wess
• 1986 Franz Wegner
• 1985 Yoichiro Nambu
• 1984 Res Jost
• 1983 Nicholas Kemmer
• 1982 Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
• 1981 Kurt Symanzik
• 1980 not awarded
• 1979 Markus Fierz
• 1978 Paul Peter Ewald
• 1977 Walter Thirring
• 1976 Ernst Stueckelberg
• 1975 Gregor Wentzel
• 1974 Léon Van Hove
• 1973 Nikolay Bogolyubov
• 1972 Herbert Fröhlich
• 1971 not awarded
• 1970 Rudolf Haag
• 1969 Freeman Dyson
• 1968 Walter Heitler
• 1967 Harry Lehmann
• 1966 Gerhart Lüders
• 1965 not awarded
• 1964 Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck
• 1963 Rudolf Peierls
• 1962 Ralph Kronig
• 1961 Eugene Wigner
• 1960 Lev Landau
• 1959 Oskar Klein
• 1958 Wolfgang Pauli
• 1957 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• 1956 Victor Weisskopf
• 1955 Hans Bethe
• 1954 Enrico Fermi
• 1953 Walther Bothe
• 1952 Paul Dirac
• 1951 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
• 1950 Peter Debye
• 1949 Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
• 1948 Max Born
• 1945–1947 not awarded
• 1944 Walther Kossel
• 1943 Friedrich Hund
• 1942 Pascual Jordan
• 1939–1941 not awarded
• 1938 Louis de Broglie
• 1937 Erwin Schrödinger
• 1934–1936 not awarded
• 1933 Werner Heisenberg
• 1932 Max von Laue
• 1931 Arnold Sommerfeld
• 1930 Niels Bohr
• 1929 Max Planck and Albert Einstein