Stern–Gerlach Medal

The Stern–Gerlach Medal is the most prestigious prize for experimental physicists awarded by the German Physical Society. It is named after the scientists of the Stern–Gerlach experiment, Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach. It was originally called the Stern–Gerlach Prize, and has been awarded annually since 1988. It was converted into a medal in 1992.^[1]

The highest award of the German Physical Society for theoretical physics is the Max Planck Medal.

Laureates

1988 Erich Gerdau [de]
1989 Manfred Faubel [de]
1990 Horst Uwe Keller [de] (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau)
1991 Dirk Dubbers und Walter Mampe [de]
1992 Wolfgang Krätschmer
1993 Klaus Winter [de]
1994 Wolfgang Kaiser
1995 Joachim Trümper [de]
1996 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
1997 Peter Armbruster
1998 Herbert Walther
1999 Siegfried Hunklinger [de]
2000 Theodor W. Hänsch
2001 Achim Richter
2002 Jan Peter Toennies
2003 Reinhard Genzel
2004 Frank Steglich
2005 Bogdan Povh [sl; de]
2006 Erich Sackmann
2007 Peter Grünberg
2008 Konrad Kleinknecht [de]
2009 Friedrich Wagner
2010 Horst Schmidt-Böcking [de]
2011 Günter Wolf [de]
2012 Rainer Blatt
2013 Dieter Pohl
2014 Gerhard Abstreiter
2015 Karl Jakobs
2016 Werner Hofmann
2017 Laurens Molenkamp
2018 Karsten Danzmann [de]
2019 Peter Braun-Munzinger [de], Johanna Stachel
2020 Dieter Bimberg
2021 Joachim Ullrich
2022 Frank Eisenhauer
2023 Manfred Fiebig