Max Planck Medal
Jewish recipients of the Max Planck Medal documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 23% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
21 documented recipients
Albert Einstein1905
Physicist who founded special and general relativity and explained the photoelectric effect; Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
Source: Wikipedia — Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr1913
Physicist who gave the quantum model of the atom in 1913 and led Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
Source: Wikipedia — Niels Bohr
Max Born1954
Co-founder of quantum mechanics who gave the statistical interpretation of the wave function; Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Source: Wikipedia — Max Born
Lise Meitner1939
Nuclear Fission Explanation
Source: Element 109 named after her
James Franck1882
Franck–Hertz experiment confirming the quantized energy levels of atoms; Nobel Prize in Physics 1925; later research on photosynthesis
Source: Wikipedia — James Franck
Hans Bethe1945
Manhattan Project Theoretical Division Head
Source: Nobel Prize Physics 1967
Victor Weisskopf1908
Physicist; quantum electrodynamics and nuclear physics, director-general of CERN
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Wolfgang Pauli1945
Theoretical physicist who formulated the exclusion principle and proposed the neutrino; Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
Source: Wikipedia — Wolfgang Pauli
Oskar Klein1894
Physicist; Klein-Gordon equation and Kaluza-Klein theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Lev Landau1908
Theoretical physicist; theory of superfluidity of liquid helium and of condensed matter, Nobel Prize in Physics 1962; co-author of the Course of Theoretical Physics
Source: Wikipedia — Lev Landau
Eugene Wigner1902
Mathematical physicist; brought group theory and symmetry principles into quantum mechanics, theory of the nuclear force; Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
Source: Wikipedia — Eugene Wigner
Rudolf Peierls1907
Physicist; co-authored the memorandum on the feasibility of an atomic bomb, condensed matter theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Samuel Goudsmit1902
Physicist; co-discovered electron spin
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Walter Heitler1904
Physicist known for the Heitler–London theory of the chemical bond
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Herbert Fröhlich1905
Physicist; electron-phonon interaction theory of superconductivity
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Valentine Bargmann1908
Mathematical physicist; representation theory and the Bargmann space
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Elliott Lieb1932
Mathematical physics; stability of matter
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Raymond Stora1930
Physicist; BRST symmetry in gauge theories
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Pierre Hohenberg1934
Physicist known for the Hohenberg–Kohn theorems of density functional theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Joel Lebowitz1930
Physicist; rigorous statistical mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alexander Polyakov1945
Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics