Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- medallion
- Named after
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Country
- Netherlands
- Official website
- www.knaw.nl/en/funds-and-prizes/lorentz-medal
- Image
- LorentzMedal.jpg
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- conferred by
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Lorentz Medal winners
- review score
- 0.54
- native label
- Lorentzmedaille
- inception
- 1925-00-00
- Commons category
- Lorentz Medal
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Encyclopedic overview
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 2025 prize was anticipated by one year to celebrate the centennial.
The first winner, Max Planck, was personally selected by Lorentz. Eleven of the 25 award winners later received a Nobel Prize. The Lorentz medal is ranked fifth in a list of most prestigious international academic awards in physics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lorentz Medal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.