Max Planck Medal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- medallion
- Named after
- Max Planck
- Award
- medallion
- Country
- Germany
- Official website
- www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille
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- inception
- 1929-00-00
- conferred by
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Winners of the Max Planck Medal
- review score
- 0.56
- native label
- Max-Planck-Medaille
- Commons category
- Max Planck Medal
- awarded for type of work
- theoretical physics
- eligible recipient
- physicist
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Encyclopedic overview
The inaugural award: Max Planck (left) presents Albert Einstein (right) with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society, 28 June 1929, in Berlin, Germany.
The Max Planck Medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions, and usually to a single person. The winner is awarded with a gold medal and hand-written parchment.
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