Lorentz medal

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The Lorentz gold medal

The Lorentz medal is an award established by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen [Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences], 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.

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