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.
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 Lev Landau
1961 Eugene Wigner
1962 Ralph Kronig
1963 Rudolf Peierls
1964 Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck
1965 - not assigned
1966 Gerhart 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
2011 Giorgio Parisi
