JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE MAX PLANCK MEDAL
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Listed below are recipients of the Planck Medal (or Medaille) who were, or are, Jewish (or of half- or three-quarters-Jewish descent, as noted). This award is considered to be among the most prestigious in the field of theoretical physics.NOTES
- Albert Einstein (1929)
- Niels Bohr 1 (1930)
- Max Born (1948)
- Lise Meitner (1949)
- James Franck (1951)
- Hans Bethe 2 (1955)
- Victor Weisskopf (1956)
- Wolfgang Pauli 3 (1958)
- Oskar Klein (1959)
- Lev Landau (1960)
- Eugene Wigner (1961)
- Rudolf Peierls (1963)
- Samuel Goudsmit (1964)
- Walter Heitler (1968)
- Herbert Fröhlich (1972)
- Valentine Bargmann (1988)
- Elliott Lieb (1992)
- Raymond Stora (1998)
- Pierre Hohenberg (1999)
- Joel Lebowitz (2007)
- Alexander Polyakov (2021)
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
3. Pauli described himself as being three-quarters Jewish in a letter to Frank Aydelotte quoted in the April 1995 issue of Physics Today (p. 86). See also http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/exhibit/pauli/ausreise_e.html.
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