Lorentz Medal is a distinction awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. It was established in 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the doctorate of Hendrik Lorentz. The medal is given for important contributions to theoretical physics, though in the past there have been some experimentalists among its recipients.
The first winner, Max Planck, was personally selected by Lorentz. Eleven of the 23 award winners later received a Nobel Prize. The Lorentz medal is ranked fifth in a list of most prestigious international academic awards in physics.
Recipients
| Year | Recipients |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Daan Frenkel3 |
| 2018 | Juan M. Maldacena45 |
| 2014 | Michael Berry67 |
| 2010 | Edward Witten89 |
| 2006 | Leo P. Kadanoff1011 |
| 2002 | Frank Wilczek12 |
| 1998 | Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell |
| 1994 | Alexander Polyakov |
| 1990 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes13 |
| 1986 | Gerard 't Hooft |
| 1982 | Anatole Abragam |
| 1978 | Nicolaas Bloembergen14 |
| 1974 | John H. van Vleck15 |
| 1970 | George Uhlenbeck |
| 1966 | Freeman J. Dyson |
| 1962 | Rudolf E. Peierls |
| 1958 | Lars Onsager16 |
| 1953 | Fritz London |
| 1947 | Hendrik A. Kramers |
| 1939 | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| 1935 | Peter Debye17 |
| 1931 | Wolfgang Pauli18 |
| 1927 | Max Planck |
See also
External links
References
Berends, Frits; van Delft, Dirk (2019). Lorentz, Gevierd Wetenschapper, Geboren Verzoener (in Dutch). Prometheus. p. 549. ISBN 9789044642667. 9789044642667 ↩
Meho, Lokman I. (2020). "Highly prestigious international academic awards and their impact on university rankings". Quantitative Science Studies. 1 (2): 824–848. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00045. https://doi.org/10.1162%2Fqss_a_00045 ↩
KNAW press release https://www.knaw.nl/en/news/lorentz-medal-awarded-physicist-daan-frenkel ↩
KNAW press release, archived from the original on 2020-01-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20200114214226/https://knaw.nl/en/news/news/lorentz-medal-awarded-to-physicist-juan-martin-maldacena ↩
IAS press release, 28 March 2018 https://www.ias.edu/news/2018/maldacena-lorentz ↩
KNAW press release, archived from the original on 2021-01-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20210126132638/https://knaw.nl/en/news/news/lorentz-medal-for-sir-michael-berry ↩
Bristol University press release[permanent dead link] http://www.bris.ac.uk/physics/news/2014/lorentz-medal-.html ↩
KNAW press release, archived from the original on 2020-11-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20201124123016/https://knaw.nl/en/news/news/lorentzmedaille-knaw-voor-edward-witten ↩
IAS press release, 29 June 2010 https://www.ias.edu/news/edward-witten-awarded-lorentz-and-newton-medals ↩
KNAW press release, archived from the original on 2022-03-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20220302143139/https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/lorentzmedaille/lorentzmedaille-2006-voor-leo-kadanoff ↩
APS press release https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200612/kadanoff.cfm ↩
KNAW press release, archived from the original on 2022-03-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20220302122349/https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/lorentzmedaille/lorentzmedaille-2002-voor-amerikaanse-fysicus ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1991/gennes/biographical/ ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1981/bloembergen/biographical/ ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1977/vleck/biographical/ ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1968/onsager/biographical/ ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1936/debye/biographical/ ↩
Nobel prize bio https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1945/pauli/biographical/ ↩