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

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