Lorentz Medal

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Lorentz Medal

HONOR

For contributions to theoretical physics.

Named for physicist Hendrik Lorentz. Awarded since 1927 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1927 Max Planck

1931 Wolfgang Pauli

1935 Peter Debye

1939 Arnold Sommerfeld

1947 Hendrik Kramers

1953 Fritz London

1958 Lars Onsager

1962 Rudolf Peierls

1966 Freeman Dyson

1970 George Uhlenbeck

1974 John H. van Vleck

1978 Nicolaas Bloembergen

1982 Anatole Abragam

1986 Gerardus 't Hooft

1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1994 Alexander Polyakov

1998 Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell

2002 Frank Wilczek

2006 Leo P. Kadanoff

2010 Edward Witten

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