The Max-Born-Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the German Physical Society and the British Institute of Physics 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 a German and a British physicist in alternate years. 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.
List of recipients
- 1973 Roger Cowley
- 1974 Walter Greiner
- 1975 Trevor Moss
- 1976 Hermann Haken
- 1977 Walter Spear
- 1978 Herbert Walther
- 1979 John Taylor
- 1980 Helmut Faissner
- 1981 Cyril Domb
- 1982 Wolfgang Kaiser
- 1983 Andrew Keller
- 1984 Amand Faessler
- 1985 George Isaak
- 1986 Josef Stuke
- 1987 Cyril Hilsum
- 1988 Peter Armbruster
- 1989 Robert Williams
- 1990 Ernst Otto Göbel
- 1991 Gilbert Lonzarich
- 1992 Joachim Heintze
- 1993 David Hanna
- 1994 Wolfgang Demtröder
- 1995 Michael Key
- 1996 Jürgen Mlynek
- 1997 Robin Marshall
- 1998 Gerhard Abstreiter
- 1999 John Dainton
- 2000 Rolf Felst
- 2001 Volker Heine
- 2002 Siegfried Dietrich
- 2003 Brian Foster
- 2004 Matthias Scheffler
- 2005 Michael William Finnis
- 2006 Dieter Bimberg
- 2007 Alan D. Martin
- 2008 Hagen Kleinert
- 2009 Robin Devenish
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