Stern-Gerlach-Medaille
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The Stern–Gerlach Medal is the most prestigious German Award for experimental physicists, named after the scientists of the Stern–Gerlach experiment
, Otto Stern
and Walther Gerlach.
The prize, awarded annually since 1993, is awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
(DPG).
Stern–Gerlach experiment
Important in the field of quantum mechanics, the Stern–Gerlach experiment, named after Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, is a 1922 experiment on the deflection of particles, often used to illustrate basic principles of quantum mechanics...
, Otto Stern
Otto Stern
Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....
and Walther Gerlach.
The prize, awarded annually since 1993, is awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
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).
Laureates
- 1993 Klaus WinterKlaus WinterKlaus Winter was a German judge. He was a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany .-References:...
- 1994 Wolfgang Kaiser
- 1995 Joachim Trümper
- 1996 Heinz Maier-LeibnitzHeinz Maier-LeibnitzHeinz Maier-Leibnitz was a German physicist. He made contributions to nuclear spectroscopy, coincidence measurement techniques, radioactive tracers for biochemistry and medicine, and neutron optics...
- 1997 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...
- 1998 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...
- 1999 Siegfried Hunklinger
- 2000 Theodor W. Hänsch
- 2001 Achim RichterAchim RichterAchim Richter is a German nuclear physicist. He became a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1974, but retired in September 2008...
- 2002 Jan Peter ToenniesJan Peter ToenniesProfessor Jan Peter Toennies is an American scientist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization...
- 2003 Reinhard GenzelReinhard GenzelReinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist.-Life:Genzel studied physics at the University of Bonn where he did his PhD in 1978 and, in the same year, his OhD thesis on radioastronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...
- 2004 Frank SteglichFrank SteglichFrank Steglich is a German physicist.He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a number of other recognitions...
- 2005 Bogdan Povh
- 2006 Erich SackmannErich SackmannErich Sackmann is an eminent experimental physicist.He studied in the University of Stuttgart and finished his degree in 1964. After working in Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., USA and in Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen, in 1974 he became a Professor...
- 2007 Peter GrünbergPeter GrünbergPeter Andreas Grünberg is a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.-Biography:...
- 2008 Konrad Kleinknecht
- 2009 Friedrich Wagner
- 2010 Horst Schmidt-Böcking
- 2011 Günter Wolf
- 2012 Rainer BlattRainer BlattRainer Blatt is a German-Austrian experimental physicist. His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information. He and his team were the first to teleport atoms.-Biography:...