The Max Planck medal is an award for extraordinary achievements in Theoretical Physics. It is awarded annually by the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).

List of Nominees

• 1929 Max Planck and Albert Einstein
• 1930 Niels Bohr
• 1931 Arnold Sommerfeld
• 1932 Max von Laue
• 1933 Werner Heisenberg
• 1934 - 1936 not assigned
• 1937 Erwin Schrödinger
• 1938 Louis de Broglie
• 1939 - 1941 not assigned
• 1942 Pascual Jordan
• 1943 Friedrich Hund
• 1944 Walther Kossel
• 1945 - 1947 not assigned
• 1948 Max Born
• 1949 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
• 1950 Peter Debye
• 1951 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
• 1952 Paul Dirac
• 1953 Walther Bothe
• 1954 Enrico Fermi
• 1955 Hans Bethe
• 1956 Victor Weisskopf
• 1957 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• 1958 Wolfgang Pauli
• 1959 Oskar Klein
• 1960 Lew Landau
• 1961 Eugene Wigner
• 1962 Ralph Kronig
• 1963 Rudolf Peierls
• 1964 Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck
• 1965 - not assigned
• 1966 Gerhard Lüders
• 1967 Harry Lehmann
• 1968 Walter Heitler
• 1969 Freeman Dyson
• 1970 Rudolf Haag
• 1971 not assigned
• 1972 Herbert Fröhlich
• 1973 Nikolai Bogolubov
• 1974 Léon van Hove
• 1975 Gregor Wentzel
• 1976 Ernst Stueckelberg
• 1977 Walter Thirring
• 1978 Paul Ewald
• 1979 Marcus Fierz
• 1980 not assigned
• 1981 Kurt Symanzik
• 1982 Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
• 1983 Nicholas Kemmer
• 1984 Res Jost
• 1985 Yoichiro Nambu
• 1986 Franz Wegner
• 1987 Julius Wess
• 1988 Valentine Bargmann
• 1989 Bruno Zumino
• 1990 Hermann Haken
• 1991 Wolfhart Zimmermann
• 1992 Elliott H. Lieb
• 1993 Kurt Binder
• 1994 Hans-Jürgen Borchers
• 1995 Siegfried Großmann
• 1996 Ludwig Faddejew
• 1997 Gerald Brown
• 1998 Raymond Stora
• 1999 Pierre Hohenberg
• 2000 Martin Lüscher
• 2001 Jürg Fröhlich
• 2002 Jürgen Ehlers
• 2003 Martin Gutzwiller
• 2004 Klaus Hepp