Lorentz medal
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The Lorentz medal is an award established by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen [Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW], on the occasion of the 50th anniversary (11 December, 1925) of the doctorate of the theoretical physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. The gold medal is awarded once every four years to a scientist in recognition of important contributions to (theoretical) physics. An ad hoc committee of the physics section of the KNAW selects the medalist.
| Lorentz medallists | |
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| 1927 | Max Planck |
| 1931 | Wolfgang Pauli |
| 1935 | Peter Debije |
| 1939 | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| 1947 | Hendrik A. Kramers |
| 1953 | Fritz London |
| 1958 | Lars Onsager |
| 1962 | Rudolph E. Peierls |
| 1966 | Freeman J. Dyson |
| 1970 | George E. Uhlenbeck |
| 1974 | John H. van Vleck |
| 1978 | Nicolaas Bloembergen |
| 1982 | Anatole Abragam |
| 1986 | Gerard 't Hooft |
| 1990 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
| 1994 | Alexander M. Polyakov |
| 1998 | Carl E. Wieman & Eric A. Cornell |
| 2002 | Frank Wilczek |
| 2006 | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| 2010 | Edward Whitten |
