Max Born Prize

Not to be confused with the Max Born Award from the Optical Society.

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 physicists based in Germany and in the UK or Ireland in alternate years.[1][2]

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."[3]

List of recipients

The following people have received the Max Born Prize:[2][4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Born medal and prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Max-Born-Preis" [Max Born Prize] (in German). German Physical Society. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Statute of the Max-Born-Prize". German Physical Society. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Born medal recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2009" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2010" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2011" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2012" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2013" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2014" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "Max-Born-Preis 2015" (in German). Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
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